Word: buff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added off to one side a quick sketch of her playing in the buff which deftly caught the uninhibited side of three-year-olds. Even in a portrait, says Cox, "you're trying for something universal...
...graceful gesture to the Japanese, the Far East headquarters have now been moved out of the Dai Ichi Building, seven year symbol of U.S. prestige and domination, to a group of long, buff-colored buildings on Tokyo's outskirts, which once housed the Japanese War Ministry...
Helen Traubel was warned before she went to Japan that the Japanese prefer instrumentalists to vocalists. Moreover, they could hardly be expected to understand the words of her Wagner and spirituals. But husky Soprano Traubel had full confidence in the effect of her big voice. An old baseball buff,* she answered that she would throw her voice "like DiMaggio throws a ball," and she was sure that the Japanese would "catch it." In 26 concerts in a dozen cities, Soprano Traubel had the Japanese fielding every note...
...better. In A Monument to St Jerome (Sheed & Ward; $4.50) nine Roman Catholic authorities have 'written a combined character sketch of one of the livehest, most learned and most cantankerous saints ever to be canonized a pummeling controversialist who could sniff out obscure heresies as a veteran fire-buff smells smoke...
...Grounds have been scraping and washing the walls and ceiling of the transept, which divides Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre, to prepare the surfaces for painting. The ceiling, now a dull mahogany from age, will be restored to its original reddish-gold wood stain, while walls will be painted buff brown with colored striping...