Word: artful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addressing a session of the annual Congress of German Art last week at Munich, Bavarian Minister of Interior Adolf Wagner welcomed the artists present, assured them that if the present world knew anything about contemporary German art, it would be recognized as indispensable...
Before the Führer's arrival, Minister of Propaganda Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels next day expounded "the reunion of art with the mass of the people," maintained that until the Nazis came along, modern German art had been degenerating because the Jews controlled it. "The people wandered away from art because they had no understanding of this [degenerate] art...
...Yorkers who were willing to make the trip down to 175 Canal St. and up four flights of stairs had a chance to note the effect of the Sino-Japanese war upon the minds of American-born Chinese children aged 4 to 16. The children's first National Art Exhibition, staged by the alert four-year-old Chinese Art Club, had gathered 550 drawings and paintings from every part of the country, including Honolulu...
First Fiddle. Figure skating, the art in which Sonja Henie was first feminine fiddle for more than a decade, is a graceful competitive pastime which was once regarded as about as unsalable as china painting. In championship competition, figure skaters are called on to do about seven out of about 41 compulsory school figures. Although many of these figures are inordinately difficult to learn, most are very dull to watch. The second half of a figure-skating contest is free skating, where invention counts as well as execution. Theoretically unlimited, in practice most free-skating repertories, including Sonja Henie...
This exacting art Sonja Henie began to study when she was eight. For Christmas that year Father Wilhelm, a Scandinavian copy of W. C. Fields, gave her her first, cheap pair of skates. Trying them out at the Frogner Stadium, little Sonja promptly sat down. Getting up, she practiced her outer and inner edges so diligently that next year she won Oslo's junior competition; five years after that, aged 14, the Norwegian championship. That was the Olympic Year of 1924 and Sonja went to Chamonix to try out in the great games. The trial was a disappointment...