Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When passers-by saw it the next morning, they gaped and gasped: the father's massive figure was unclothed. Within a few minutes a crowd of several hundred had gathered, and somebody called the police. The cops elbowed their way through the onlookers, took a horrified look themselves, and carted the statue off to the municipal jail...
...after irate citizens had banished from exhibition a plaster cast of the Discobolus, famed Roman copy of a Myron statue, because the discus thrower was nude, Novelist Samuel (The Way of All Flesh) Butler wrote a satirical ode to the city...
...born Lady Astor, trying to raise ?400,000 in London for a settlement for international university women, denounced Hollywood's preoccupation with sex in "this modern striptease age." Said she: "I think it's terrible the way women are used for glamour ... Educated women are far more important to the world...
...alike flocked to Foujita's exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss me because I smoke...
...Under no circumstances can a judge acknowledge and approve an unjust law . . . Therefore he cannot pass a sentence that would be tantamount to approval of it." 4) "However . . . the judge may-sometimes even must-allow the unjust law to run its course, if this is the only way to avoid a greater evil...