Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...except Nishida could describe the subjects of his art, and he declines to do so. His paintings are made up of solid masses of pure color, often applied with big brushes which he wields like two-handed swords. "My heart sinks," confessed his father last week, "to see the boy take a whole tube of color and squeeze it on to canvas. They cost at least 300 yen. But he knows how to get proper effects...
...Except for Idaho and South Dakota, every state in the Union had been represented in the contest. More than a quarter of the entrants were housewives; the rest ranged from surgeons to engravers and from butlers to prison guards. One of them, an actor, reported that he had taken up painting simply "to see how it's done." That would be a good reason for art critics to paint; unfortunately, no critics had entered the contest...
...Except for a slight stiffness about the hips and a shorter backswing, he looked like the old Hogan. He was one under par for the first nine holes. When his strength began to ebb on the 13th, he leaned against a tree to pull himself together. On the 15th, he glared momentarily at what sounded like another movie camera. When he discovered it was only a lawn mower, he calmly lined up a 30-foot putt and sank it. His first-round score was 73, only five strokes off the pace...
...Handed. Boston-born Bill Halligan, now 50, was so fast on his feet that when depression ruined his business as a radio-parts salesman in Chicago, he tried his hand at manufacturing high-quality, precision-tuned radio receivers-with no capital except credit from a few business friends. A radio "ham" himself, Halligan rightly reasoned that other hams would buy such sets...
Would Director De Sica help? Well, he would give Maggiorani a job as a prop man in his next movie. "I don't think he has any future as an actor," De Sica said, "except occasionally in workmen's roles . . . I think he should go on with his regular...