Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first week after a national convention," said the New York Times after the Houston convention, "is always devoted to the noble political art of climbing aboard. There ought to be a rule against looking when the ungraceful act is performed...
Last week the Sovereign of Liechtenstein, Johann Marie François Placide, Prince de Liechtenstein, Duc de Trappau et de Jägerndorf, lord of vast estates in Austria and Czechoslovakia, and owner of the famed Art Gallery in Vienna which bears his name, decided that it was time for him to take a shrewd step in respect to the inheritance taxes of Austria and Czechoslovakia, for the Prince is now aged four score and eight...
...Works of art or of human industry of an early epoch...
Most people regard most paintings with total apathy if they regard them at all. Most painters decry this inattention; some will even admit that in this day their art has become a weak one, fostered by artificial and injurious enthusiasms. Precisely why should it be less fun to look at paintings than to read books is a question for which there are many answers. Lee Simonson, able editor of Creative Art, suggested one last week. He wrote: "The modernity of the painter today reveals itself just as much in what he paints as the way he paints it. That change...
Serious-minded visitors, to whom aviation is first an industry, then a fine art, concentrated on the start of the fourth National Air Tour. Twenty-five planes, ranging from two-seater "flivvers" to trimotored, all-metal monoplanes, carefully handicapped for speed and weight, took off from Ford Airport at one-minute intervals, ready to fly 6,300 miles swiftly, safely, reliably...