Word: twister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical example of this was Portrait (see cut) by 9-year-old Rudy Reni of Roslyn Heights, N. Y., who had the Duchess of Windsor in mind. A vivid twister in yellow, black and purple it was a dead ringer for a simple Matisse. This picture, incidentally, was an exception to the general rule that young children paint in the horizontal plane, older children in the vertical. The paintings which as a group undoubtedly stole the show were almost all horizontal-193 "finger paintings" by children from three to ten years...
...Tercentenary is over, although memories of it will last long. Mr. Greene can now go back to his top floor office in University Hall as Secretary to the Corporation, handle its official correspondence. No need to worry yet awhile about the next tongue-twister, the quadricentennial...
...porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans of calcium carbide, flung one 300 yd. against the side of a coal tower. After 20 min. the twister was lifted back into its mother cloud, drenching the ground with water as it rose...
...Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...
...with cane, cigar, spats and silk hat that traditionally represents the banker. The figure, however, wore neither pants nor coat and only the tattered remnants of a shirt around his neck. In confusion about the figure lay twisted steel rails, bits of machinery, other wreckage left by a black twister labeled "Rugged Individualism." Disappearing in the distance, the twister was bearing off a flock of banks, factories and "reputations." Says the banker: "It wasn't much of a cyclone at that...