Word: adriane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made secretary of an advisory committee on Fine Arts. In Washington last week a meeting of that committee was held at Artist Bruce's home. On hand in addition to Messrs. Robert and Bruce were Art Critic Forbes Watson as technical director, President Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, Braintruster Rexford Tugwell, CWAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins. The Com mittee was given $3.000.000 to provide work for 2.500 artists decorating public buildings at the flat rate of $35 per week. It was announced that not only strictly Federal buildings would be decorated by CWArtists but also...
Last but not least of the four heroes is Pietro Aretino, the bastard guttersnipe whose effrontery and wit always kept him in high society and hot water, whose scurrilous lampoons lambasted everyone from the Pope down. One of his mildest japes: when unpopular Pope Adrian VI died, a wreath appeared on his doctor's door, inscribed: "To the Deliverer of his country, S. P. Q. R." Of the four, Aretino's end was happiest. After tremendous ups & downs he settled in Venice, waxed fat and urbane, survived a tragic love affair and went down wenching...
...Washington, Frederick Adrian Delano, 70-year-old uncle of President Roosevelt, patented a "one-way window glass." Made of a "corrugated transparent material," Uncle Delano's invention so distorts light rays that it is opaque when looked at from one side, transparent from the other...
...international championship for star boats-slim, 22-ft. sloops with tall Marconi mainsails and cockpits just big enough for two-started smoothly enough off Long Beach, Calif, last week. Young Eddie Fink of Long Beach, the defending champion, won the first race in his Movie Star II. Adrian Iselin II, the Bacardi Cup holder, who had brought his Ace, his crinkly smile, his old sailing hat and his crony Ed Willis from Port Washington. L. I., snooped out most of the light breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack...
...Racquet Co. of Launceton, Tasmania. Flat-topped racquets remained popular in Australia long after they had gone out of fashion elsewhere, partly because famed Norman Brookes, who became head of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association after he retired from active tournament competition, continued to prefer them. Australia's Adrian Quist and Donald Turnbull used the same kind. Unlike U. S. players who have their bats strung, with gut so fine that it never lasts more than one day, often less than a set, Champion Crawford uses "any kind" of gut, thick, durable and oldfashioned, has his racquets restrung...