Word: navel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep a sharp eye on the President: "He seemed to be gay, sure of himself, a bit festive at times, informative, indeed illuminating. . . . He has grown notably heavier since he came to the White House. . . . His growth has not been in paunch. It has been above his navel. His shoulders have widened. His neck and jowls have filled out. His head has taken a new form. . . . He is a vital person...
...stake of the impending battle was the excellent Bizarre navel base, dominating the vital Sicilian straits, and Adolph Hitler was believ ed gambling every man and machine he could spare in an effort to hold one strong point on his crumbling Mediterranean flank
...Barrymore reputation was the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet which she played with her father last winter on Rudy Vallee's radio program. During rehearsals she uttered girlish spontaneities like "I'm so warm I'd like to rip this dress right down to the navel." But on the air she was a luminously sensitive Juliet. Ogling his daughter fondly in his dressing room afterwards, Old John cried: "You can bet the whole damn family was listening in and proud of the job she did. It was a damn good...
...Bemelmans' artist eye, Quito appeared from above "as if made of marzipan crawling with numberless black flies." The Quito train was small, baroque and red with "banisters . . . that belong to an old brownstone house." Restaurant signs en route read: Hays Krim (Ice Cream), Airistiu (Irish Stew) and Wide Navel Wiski (White Label Whisky). In a hotel, whose walls were papered with copies of the Schweizer Hausfrau, he could read useful pointers on the cure of hemorrhoids and on what to do if encumbered with a hat, an umbrella and a lighted cigar when approaching a lady...
...David Smith, virtuoso in scrap iron (TIME, Nov. 18); 2) a jittery, swaying mobile made out of fence wire and iron by U. S. Mobilist Alexander ("Sandy") Calder. Most arresting exhibit: a crawling, sluglike, headless, armless and legless female form in plaster with three hips, two breasts and a navel, modeled with necrophilic realism and euphemistically labeled The Span of Life, by Cleveland-born sculptor Hugo Robus. Prices ran from...