Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against the feared ravages of war, most of Europe's great art collections have gone into hiding. At the New York and San Francisco Fairs, however, many a masterpiece from Europe has safely stayed on display. With both fairs about to close, these foreign art exhibits last week had to seek other shelter...
Assembler of the Masterpieces of Art exhibit at the New York World's Fair was tall, resourceful Director Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner of the Detroit Institute of Arts. To Detroit, appropriately, will be shipped next month 42 of the 45 paintings Dr. Valentiner borrowed abroad. If World War II continues, they will later tour other U. S. museums which are willing to underwrite their $2,500,000 insurance...
Where once they carried water into rough wooden dormitories, they gaped at 100 modern brick buildings, an art museum, a 50,000-volume library (named for Alumnus Oliver Wendell Holmes), a new infirmary, an archeological museum, a carillon tower, a forest sanctuary. "Where," grumped Edgar B. Sherrill, '98, "is the Deanery?" "There it is, sir," replied great-nephew Arthur Miles Sherrill Jr., 13, pointing to an imposing new brick-and-concrete commons...
...art of war is now borrowing from applied science all the resources that are at the latter's disposal, and there is nothing up to velocipedism that is not contributing to the service of the army. . . . In the use of the military bicycle as practised in England, [suppose that] a small body of cyclists, ten in number (two sections and a half-section), with officers and bugler, marching in usual order of half-sections-that is, by 'twos'-are attacked by cavalry. At the word of command, 'Halt! Prepare for cavalry! Form square!' each...
National service of this sort was indeed already being rendered by talents so widely diverse as Mystery Writer Dorothy Sayers, who wrote cheerio editorials for the newspapers, and Herbert Read, art critic and scholar, who prepared an anthology of prose and verse to be called (for its destination) The Knapsack-"just the sort of thing I wanted myself in the last...