Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading artist is Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 37, who likes to picture men whose skins are as wrinkled as a dirty handkerchief. His heavy baroque style brought him local fame when he applied it to a loutish, hunched figure called The Lineman. Other noteworthy Chicago artists: Malvin Albright, twin of Ivan who sculpts under the name of Zsissly; Aaron Bohrod (pronounced Bo-rod) who does sketches of Chicago streets and coal yards; Jean Crawford Adams (landscapes); Archibald John Motley Jr., Negro who gets a bright, sculpturesque quality in his portraits of fellow Negroes Frances Foy, whose specialty is city parks...
...Hook 'Em Cows" are affluent, football-mad livestock commission merchants and packers of the Twin Cities. Since Stan Kostka comes from a little farm near South St. Paul, the stockyard centre of Minnesota, and has two brothers working in the stockyards, he has a natural claim to "Hook 'Em Cow" loyalty. He scored none of Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games...
Appointed Brearley's headmistress in 1930 was Millicent Carey, onetime English professor and acting dean at Bryn Mawr. Young, personable, friendly, moderately progressive, Headmistress Carey increased her popularity with students in 1932 by marrying able Pediatrician Rustin McIntosh, sent it sky-high last year when she bore twin boys...
...ramshackle little house in Newton, Mass. Lately he put 3¢ on a number lottery, used his winnings to buy an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. When he heard that his ticket had won him $75,000 he thought first of an automobile, a store, some new clothes, college for the twin boys of his widower brother. Then he began to worry. Now that he was rich someone might kidnap the twins...
...band again. More precinct returns. More courtesy to the dead. The two twin-bellies roll in time to the music. The bellies never bump; the owners attached stand six feet away from each other...