Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Added Sir Leigh Ashton, director of London's Victoria & Albert Museum: "After all, painters have always sought to make an object.Very often they have taken a subject too; but if only this mythical layman could be persuaded instead of looking at the subject to look at the object [the painting itself], he might then be able to appreciate . . . difficult pictures...
...Leigh: "I disagree. I think it is very somber...
...Leigh: "What alarms me, apart from . . . my personal dislike, is that it is so frightfully badly painted...
...Some 2,000 delegates of the Women's Christian Temperance Union-most of them more than 70 years old-attended its convention in Portland, Ore., clucked in horror as plump, 65-year-old Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its perennial president, reported: "This is a time of overpowering, universal and revolting drunkenness among women of all ages, weights and social positions . . . Among the 3,750,000 chronic alcoholics and problem drinkers in the U.S., more than 680,000 are women...
Born. To Jane Withers, 22, onetime No. 1 cinemoppet, and William Moss, 27, film producer: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Wendy Leigh. Weight...