Word: size
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-keyed colors, that were all his own. In Lee Catch's dark little Fruit Boat, with its cold blaze of lights seen across the water, abstraction and representation were happily merged. Catch's painting was one of the simplest and smallest on display, but it had size...
...Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week, the top brass of two big league ball clubs eyed each other for size and vulnerability. Both were suffering similar symptoms: the New York Giants had some stars who did not speak Manager Leo Durocher's roughneck language and the Boston Braves had a long list of players who were incompatible with easygoing Manager Billy Southworth. A swap might keep both from repeating their indifferent 1949 showings...
...Houghton's oddest and choicest possessions is its theater collection, a diverse conglomeration of play manuscripts, autographs, playbills--even a clipping file on contemporary screen and stage stars. The collection's size and completeness make it a valuable source of theatrical information: Cornelia Otis Skinner did research for her book "Family Circle" there; queries along the lines of "should Macbeth be played in kilts" are always coming in. A movie company once called up from Hollywood to find out whether Jenny Lind had ever sung in some saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. (She hadn...
...which, though perhaps not ideal, could straighten this out: 1. have a primary election and then a run-off; 2. require more signatures on nominating petitions, insuring both a smaller slate and nominees who are known to the voters; 3. at least institute preferential voting to help offset the size of the ballot...
...spite of the outlay, the Information program has not overcome hostility toward the Occupation or the United States. The failure represents no lack of effort or want of size. Quality of personnel and production have weakened the undertaking. Unlike the French, who from the start have spent a large portion of their Occupation budget on the transmission of French culture through intellectuals, the U.S. has been concerned chiefly with justifying its policy, good and bad; preaching much more than practicing democracy; and displaying pictorially many more sky scrapers than symphony orchestras or universities. Incidental things, such as converting...