Word: outdoorish
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...Unlike outdoorish Winslow Homer (see above), Rouault has always looked inward, to paint the medieval hells and heavens exploding within the high dome of his skull. Rouault was born in violence when a shell blasted his mother out of bed during the bombardment of Paris in 1871. At 14 he went to work in a stained-glass factory, where he earned a dollar a week and developed his unique inner climate-as sharp and glowing, to judge by his art, as glass...
...late great Peter Cooper, Manhattan philanthropist and manufacturer of the first U. S. steam locomotive,* daughter of the late Congressman, editor and diplomat, Lloyd Stephens Bryce, auburn-haired Cornelia Pinchot is a consummate politician. Bluntspoken, quick-witted, shrewd, she is quite the peer of her husband on the stump. Outdoorish in her interests, she has landscaped the Pinchot estate, holds a permit to carry a gun (kidnapping threats have been made against her only son, Gifford Jr., 16), goes exploring in khaki shorts. In 1928 she ran against Congressman McFadden, lost the Republican nomination by 2,000 votes. This year...
...year filled with the marriages of prodigies-George Herman ("Babe") Ruth to a showgirl; Charles Augustus Lindbergh to the shy, poetic daughter of an Ambassador; James Joseph Tunney to an outdoorish girl descended from one of the great steel families-not the least startling was the marriage of John Gilbert, ballyhooed by millions of shopgirls as the greatest living exponent of male sex appeal, to Ina Claire (TIME, May 20). It was particularly startling because up to the moment when their marriage was announced Gilbert was supposed to be betrothed to Greta Garbo, the greatest living exponent of female...
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