Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catlike and solitary, as he was artistic and amorous. . . . Feline . . . is the adjective most used to suggest his walk, his manner, his particular kind of acrid wit, his playfulness, his sulks, and, most of all, the voluptuousness that colored his whole relation to life and art...
...population." Their legislative aims include pensions for indigent debutantes and for "well-bred worthies who can prove they have never soiled their hands with labor." Cried an aristocracy-rouser: "What will happen to our American culture if our upper crust is robbed of the substance with which to endow art galleries, the opera and racing stables...
...exciting by quotations from reviews that compared the book vaguely to the works of Balzac, Romain Rolland and Marcel Proust. Martin du Gard, said the New York Herald Tribune loftily, "reconciles at once the fastidious preciosity of Proust and Rolland's passionate evangelism with the traditional body of art." In a year when best sellers included Sorrell and Son, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Beau Geste, Martin du Gard's masterpiece was so thumping a publishing failure that the subsequent volumes were not translated...
Author Lin. "one of the hardest working men in China," salutes the scamp, the vagabond, insists that "the art of culture is ... the art of loafing," and names the three great American vices as "efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success." His idea of the millennium in Manhattan includes a vision of the time when motorists will "inquire after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese...
Frampton Mansell munitions manufacturer, art patron, bachelor, a snappy dresser who cultivated his whiskers to bring out his resemblance to Sir Francis Drake. His phobia was ineficiency; his favorite pastime, composing ads for the latest wrinkle in Mansell ma-chine guns: "Mansell's Deadly Death Rose". . . A child can use it . . . Invaluable to all Dictators . . . A Corpse for a Ha'penny...