Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swank Georgia Hotel 500 men made themselves at home on the hotel lobby's soft, upholstered furniture. They left there after one night when a $500 bribe was raised by the city. Another 500 occupied the general post office, 200 moved into the Civic Art Gallery and there they stayed one month. Organized in orderly "military" squads, the men interfered as little as possible with business routine, were careful to clean up every morning, took exercise by marching in relays on the streets...
...Seattle last week, 50 art students of the University of Washington summer school had an experience: listening to the lectures of a small, swarthy painter, art historian, moralist, critic, ex-automobile racer named Amédée Ozenfant who was making his first U. S. visit. His shattered English made intelligible by generous gestures, abundant enthusiasm, Instructor Ozenfant impressed on them the message he has been preaching in Europe for 20 years: that great art realizes the constant elements in human experience...
Last week the American Medical Association convened in San Francisco and for the first time in that professional body's 92 years the attending members (6,000) showed more interest in the business than in the science and art of medicine. Hard times for doctors and patients, changing social attitudes have caused doctors to consider new ways of distributing medical care. Traditionally, the American Medical Association, now representing 109,435 of the country's 165,163 licensed doctors, stands for decentralized administration and private initiative. The political and economic tendency of the times, however, is toward larger-scale...
...spite of their preoccupation with strictly professional problems, the delegates paused this year for the first time to salute a colleague for high general medical achievement. To Surgeon Rudolph Matas of New Orleans went their first annual Distinguished Service Medal, given for "meritorious service in the science and art of medicine." Stout, little Dr. Matas, 1895-1927 Tulane professor of surgery, was one of the world's first doctors to use local anesthetics. He invented a splint for broken jaws and aluminum binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest and sure...
...manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound in the McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford values as literature Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, because of its message. He likes to read to children these McGuffey verses...