Word: untidyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lady Caccia, smartly tailored wife of Britain's new envoy to the U.S., met capital newshens over tea", crisply ticked off her first impressions of the U.S. Was she having tough sledding because of present tensions between Britain and the U.S.? Replied she: "I don't find between...
few maxims (sample: "Where there is aw there is injustice") and then dies; he Machiavellian Prince Vassily (Tullio Jarminati) scarcely gets out of the wings, and the two men struggling for possession of Holy Russia, Kutuzov (Oscar Homolka) and Napoleon (Herbert Lorn), are seen simply as eccentrics-the one, an...
His portrait commissions kept dwindling as he labored for months over each painting. His heavy brushstroke and thick overpainting, plus his untidy habit of cleaning brushes on his own clothing, struck his townsmen as uncouth. At 52, Rembrandt was forced to put his house and goods up for auction.
THE PIPE, by Georges Herment (164 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $4.95), is an amusing, discursive history of pipes and pipe smoking. Care and cleaning, seasoning, choice of tobacco, how to fill and then empty the bowl, are all gone into with light seriousness-and sometimes almost with mysticism. In an introduction...
"I stayed in my church, kneeling in prayer. All of a sudden, an armed Red soldier in an untidy old uniform entered the church. He advanced timidly, seemingly bewildered and frightened, and fell on his knees in front of the altar. When I approached him and he heard my step...