Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Your article under "Unity," TIME, Nov. 18, was right over the middle of the plate. - The pistol's frame behind and beneath the barrel...
...orchids and diamonds, born temptress in 22 years: slim, dark Risë (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 27, of The Bronx. Contralto Stevens proved a notable addition to the Met's strippers (who had heretofore included Sopranos Helen Jepson and Lily Pons) and in the seduction scene gave Samson (barrel-shaped Tenor René Maison) quite a going-over. But critics doubted that the Stevens pleasing midriff and voice were enough to make Saint-Saë'ns' shopworn opera an event...
...Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. famed for his barrel-shaped steel statue of St. Francis (TIME, Feb. 15, 1937), was picked to do the bas-relief. Able, but alternately dreamy, impulsive and opinionated. Sculptor Bufano turned in an acceptable drawing of the frieze, began work on a 30-ft. clay model of one section, niggled, quibbled, haggled, ordered materials only to change his mind after the requisitions had become entangled in WPA red tape. At one time he planned to cut the frieze in stone, get it financed by private sponsors. Last March, because of the delay, the local art project felt...
...occasion was the presentation by the unions which make up T. U. C. of 27 Y. M. C. A. mobile canteens. When the King, accompanied by his Queen, arrived in Buckingham Quadrangle to receive the canteens he was five minutes late for the ceremony. Barrel-chested, brindle-haired George Gibson boomed: "If you were a worker, you'd already have been fined." The King giggled...
There appeared little likelihood that Lewis would dominate Murray and run the show from backstage. Phil Murray had his chief over a barrel all week. Be fore he would agree to take the job, he demanded a resolution condemning Naziism, Fascism and Communism, one of the issues of the convention, a resolution that anti-Communist Hillman was eager for. Lewis squirmed, thundered that those who say Communists influenced C. I. 0. "lie in their beard and lie in their bowels." But finally he gave in. The resolution was passed...