Word: 119th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow's Metro, each station has an architectural motif. The murals in the new station at the Central Park of Culture and Rest are devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure." Wall relief sculpture depicts musicians, sportsmen and dancers. At another station, the motif is "Victory of the Soviet People over Fascism"; the mosaics show pilots, soldiers & sailors...
People outside the office saw little of him. Every morning, a bespectacled chauffeur-bodyguard knocked on the sixth-floor door of his apartment at 420 West 119th Street (near Columbia University), escorted him down to a Chrysler sedan and drove him to the office. In the evening the chauffeur took him home again in the same solicitous fashion...
...119th year, the venerable National Academy of Design put on the nation's most genteel, conventional art show. Last week in Manhattan the Academicians packed their staid galleries with 353 items classified as "Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art," distributed $2,400 in prizes. As usual, portraits of pearl-bearing dowagers vied for space with well-bred views of picturesque squalor. As usual, the show was judiciously peppered with a few works by well-established modernists (Philip Ever-good, William Cropper, Stanley W. Hayter). Typical Academy prizewinner was Alicia Sundt Motts's Bouquet d'Amour...
...Boston the 119th annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association (62,-000 communicants) elected Ohio's Senator Harold H. Burton as moderator to succeed Dr. Philip C. Nash, president of the University of the City of Toledo. An expected row between the right and left wing Unitarians never came off. The issue: leftist Unitarians want Unitarianism declared a non-Christian religion with the emphasis placed on humanitarianism...
Nobody, for example, really knows what Columbus looked like. There are at least 71 "alleged original portraits" in existence. Since no two look alike, Author Morison prefers an imaginary, 119th-Century portrait that "gives an impression of force, dignity and integrity...