Word: arte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chef. A pigeon, chicken, goose, pheasant, sheep, pig or even cow is firmly secured and a hypodermic injection made into the heart. Before this organ ceases to function the secret hypodermic fluid has penetrated through the veins and into the flesh, flavoring or coloring it as the art of the intrasauceur may require. Thus all crude flavoring methods such as dusting with pepper and salt, tying in strips of bacon, or basting with a sauce are triumphantly supplanted...
...Cabinet of Sacred Union comprises representatives of parties bitterly opposed, who laid down their political tomahawks solely because of the desperate emergency created by the slithering fall of the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Today the paper franc is good as gold; and French politicians have not lost the art of quarrelling. For example, Deputy Oran Molle doubled his fist, in the Chamber lobby, last week, and aimed a blow at Deputy Freissineng, who nimbly ducked, remarking: "Merci, mon ami! But today it is too hot to fight." Soon all Deputies trooped in to hear the Prime Minister set forth...
...Many ye-ears ago-I lost my hea-art-in California-but I have lost-my VOICE-in Kansas City...
...survey of the front pages of modern newspapers convinces us of the truth of most of the charges levelled against the journals. The newspaper art of making much ado over unimportant events and neglecting matters of political and historical interest is demonstrated to us day by day, not alone by tabloids, but by high-minded and supposedly intellectual journals...
...able to deal intelligently with any civilization or any problem: Dr. Meiklejohn and eleven instructors gave the students a program of reading, conference, discussion, papers to be handed in. They read Plato, Aristotle and Euripides, as.well as occasional chunks of Shakespeare, Shaw, O'Neill. They sketched Greek temples. Art, law, war economics, religion-no phase of Athenian existence was omitted. The climax of the year was a critical review, written by each student, of a modern book called the Greek View of Life by G. Lowes Dickinson. A few outsiders, such as Irishman George Russell (AE), lectured...