Word: scaffolding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bounced from his high-school team because "his feet didn't match." Now he is the glamor boy of college basketball. George ("Scaffold") Mikan stands 6 ft. 9 in his socks, weighs 227 lbs., sleeps in an 8-by-6 bed and looks like a gangling Harold Lloyd, even to the horn-rimmed spectacles. To keep his elongated bones together, De Paul University's mild-mannered Mikan makes away with a daily breakfast of oatmeal, a half dozen eggs, ham, angel cake, three cups of coffee, a cod-liver pill...
...deeply anonymous whispers, "we don't like such ganging-up. Any one of our countries may find itself in Argentina's shoes if it tries to get out of the U.S. sphere of influence or otherwise opposes the State Department. No one wants to prepare a scaffold on which he may be hanged." One diplomat quoted a Spanish proverb: "When you see your neighbor being shaved, prepare to lose your own whiskers...
Willie Was Right. Herriman wandered into newspaper cartooning because a fall from a scaffold made house painting too strenuous. He wandered into his greatest comic creations because an office boy named Willie, amused by a casually drawn cat & mouse playing marbles, suggested that Herriman flatly reverse the traditional cat-&-mouse relationship. Once Krazy Kat had made Herriman's fortune (around 1922), he left Manhattan, settled down in the West. For the past 22 years he lived near Hollywood. After his wife's death a decade ago in an automobile accident, he stayed much at home with his daughter...
...from the Scaffold. The Siqueiros Art for Victory movement got under way early last year in Chile, where Muralist Siqueiros fled while awaiting his trial. There he painted Death for the Invader, a mural regarded by the Modern Museum's Lincoln Kirstein as "the most important pictoric work since the Cubist Revolution of 1911." But peering down from his scaffold, Siqueiros observed that Latin American artists were doing nothing for the war, that they had lost touch with the masses, that Latin American governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto...
...Strenuous Life. In Ligonier, Pa., a pig bit a rope dangling from a barn, tugged, swung a scaffold out from under Painter John Graham. He pitched forward, grabbed a knothole, dropped his brush on the pig, which let go. This let the scaffold swing back under Graham, who settled aboard and relaxed...