Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must protest your incomplete reporting on "Art" in the March 22 issue, or weren't all the returns in when you went to press? You make no mention of who won the other $700 prize given by the National Academy of Design, which went to Sidney Laufman of New York for the best landscape by an American born painter...
...Hendrickje was his housekeeper and mistress. Rembrandt died a pauper, was forgotten for generations, was rediscovered and has now become among the highest priced and most frequently forged of all Old Masters. Last week it was made known that another Rembrandt, just discovered, had reached the U. S. Art critics put aside the suspicion that an announcement of this sort usually brings, for here was a Rembrandt whose authenticity was not likely to be questioned. Lost for 50 years, its history was nevertheless known. It was Hendrickje as Juno...
...complete roster of players is are follows: Pitchers, Ed Ingalls, Dick Walsh, Slim Curtiss, Don Prouty, and Royal victor; Catchers, Al Colwell, Paul Doyle, and Phil Staples; Infielders, Capt. Tom Bilodeau, Lupe Lupien, Art Johns, Frank Owen; and Dave Shean; Outfielders- Dick Grondahl, Mal McTernan, Jim Sullivan, and Dave Maclntosh...
...long interim between 1817 and the present, the art of clocution has declined far below the standard of men like Webster, Clay, Douglas, or Calhoun. In this descent toward mediocrity, the oratory prizes have stood out against the current like rocks in a stream, steadily maintaining their solid basis. They were washed over the blasts of rhetoric, by stultified, memorized arguments, but they remained fixed. Now, nurtured by Professor Packard's courses, and with the tremendous flowering of radio, which is based entirely on ear-appeal rather than the flourishing of arms, the true clocution which the prizes were founded...
...they will speak because they have something important to say, not for mere theatrical arm-waving. Each one chosen for better-than-average mastery of delivery, these ten, in their struggle for the prizes, are raising their voices in the cause for better speaking, furnishing impetus to a regenerated art. The trend towards original writing and simplified delivery at long last seems under way. Given added stimulation of this sort the Prizes will become as popular and as highly esteemed as the donors wanted them...