Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good example of what has happened is the Bayerische Motorenwerke, whose automobiles used to be regarded with the same awe in prewar Germany as the Stutz Bearcat in the U.S. of the '20s. Not a single one of the plant's buildings escaped bomb damage; 95% of its remaining equipment was dismantled. "It was all earmarked for India," related Plant Manager Kurt Donath, "but then India was divided into two nations which apparently weren't on the best of terms. Anyway, the representative of one part came here and took all the good machines. Later the representative...
Died. Mary Eaton, 46, Ziegfeld Follies star of the '20s (a Broadway hit at 16, she also starred in Eddie Cantor's 1923 Kid Boots'); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...
Disney and Kamen both started their early careers in Kansas City. There, in the early '20s, Disney was struggling along as a commercial artist, Kamen as a sales promotion man for department stores...
...Hyatt Mayor, curator of prints at the Metropolitan, added the comforting thought that critics too are stumped by new experiences in art: "I remember the first Cezannes that I saw in my early 20s. I neither liked them nor disliked them. I simply could not read them . . . But nowadays, of course, Cézanne seems right in the middle of a great tradition of painting...
...Whistler Regrets. Even time stood still for father Sitwell. In the late '20s he suggested throwing an "Artists' Party," was vexed to hear that all his intended guests (Sargent, Rodin, Renoir, Whistler, Degas) were too dead to attend. As for his children's literary efforts, he either maddened them by rewriting their poems ("Two brains, dear boy, are better than one"), or warned them, against literary excess ("My cousin . . . had a friend who killed himself by writing a novel"). One paternal judgment on his gifted daughter: "Edith made a great mistake by not going in for lawn...