Word: venus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part near the line between the sun and earth. It was therefore hard to see, like a fighter plane diving on its enemy "out of the sun." In the southern hemisphere it was visible for a short time just after the sun had set, showing almost as bright as Venus, with a tail 50 million miles long. For northern hemisphere lookers, it Was a daytime comet: it was there but no one couid...
After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...
Mary Pickford was sued by Director Gregory La Cava for exactly $1,653,750. After "temperament clashes," Mary had broken their oral contract to film Broadway's One Touch of Venus, Gregory said, and sighed: "I'm rather impractical about these things...
...their myths, Etna was deeply encrusted with legend. Somewhere under the sea, the lame god Vulcan (for whom volcanoes are named) had his workshop. It was said that the smoke and flame from his forge, where he devised various contraptions to annoy his estranged mother (Juno) and his wife (Venus), roared up through Etna's crater...
...Manhattan, women were offered a new piece of boudoir equipment-a transparent, zippered hood which covered the entire head, looked like something designed to be worn in the rarefied atmosphere of the planet Venus. It was supposed to protect them from the horrors of "messy makeup" when they slipped their dresses...