Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...
...opportunity, this part of Sixth Avenue (which no self-respecting New Yorker could bring himself to call the Avenue of the Americas) was a monument to American failure. No hour of the day or night found bar-lined Sixth Avenue without a few drunken men & women; no upper Sixth Avenue crowd ever looked happy or even gay. At the Miami Theater coming attractions were Primitive Love and Guilty Parents. Even...
...upper west side of Manhattan, an area thick with university buildings and theological seminaries, is dominated by two great churches-the towering Rockefeller-built Riverside Church and the huge, unfinished Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Last week each made news...
Married. George Abbott, 56, Broadway playwright-producer-director, and Mary Sinclair, 28, dress designer; both for the second time; in Upper Montclair...
...rocket's nose are instruments to record the composition of the upper atmosphere, its temperature, pressure and density. Later the Corporal may report on cosmic ray and meteoric conditions, and possibly provide new spectroscopic photographs of astral phenomena unimpeded by the optical distortion of the lower atmosphere. Heretofore the best information on the upper air has been supplied by radio-equipped weather balloons which level off some 20 miles below the Corporal's recorded ceiling...