Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laws guaranteeing Blacks the right to demand admission to all theatres, hotels, restaurants, beauty parlors, etc. New York, Illinois and Ohio have long had such laws against Jim Crowism. Pennsylvania got one when Democratic Governor Earle took office (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). But nowhere, as most intelligent Negroes admit, art: such laws consistently enforced against the strong but silent sentiment of the White majority opposed to close social contact with Blacks. When a bumptious blackamoor attempts to invoke such a statute, he generally gets more publicity than social satisfaction...
Left. By the late Steelmaster John Long Severance, Cleveland's great patron of arts & music; to the Cleveland Art Museum: whatever its officers choose from his $2,140,252 art collection, which includes Rembrandt's Portrait of a Youth, Sir Thomas Lawrence's Daughters of Colonel Thomas Cartaret Hardy, Van Dyck's "Sir Thomas Hanmer; in Cleveland...
...sparsely-settled areas of Mexico, compresses to reduce the size of ordinary gin bales for overseas shipment, warehouses with a capacity of 2,000,000 bales, a barge line on the Ouachita, Mississippi and Warrior Rivers to carry cotton to tidewater. It runs a school to teach the fine art of cotton grading, finances cotton growing in irrigated sections, has even distributed hogs to improve the lot of the cotton grower...
...Lean Men Ralph Bates wrote an involved and melodramatic story about the Spanish revolution, painting vivid pictures of Spanish working-class life and weakening his story with long discussions of art and philosophy. More involved than that promising first novel, The Olive Field similarly contains much that most readers will want to skip, but it also contains a narrative forceful enough to carry readers beyond dull spots, presents a general picture of revolutionary Spain that seems to square with modern Spanish history...
...time job like any other. His own working habits are as steady as a farmer's. He gets up early, works through the morning wherever he happens to be. In Provincetown he swims before lunch, goes sailing every afternoon, takes little or no part in Provincetown's art-colony doings. Since he is traveling most of the time his household has something of the air of a dwelling that is just being moved into, with trunks and crates crowding the back rooms, books that he uses for research scattered around the walls...