Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas Building which will become a permanent historical building. Other not-so-novelties include a music amphitheatre, buildings of animal husbandry, poultry and agriculture, an art show assembled by Dr. Robert Harshe, who did the same for the Century of Progress...
...might be the new Secretary for the Colonies, the newspapers of Lord Beaverbrook were vociferous that it should not be First Commissioner of Works William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 51, arch-Conservative son & heir of the third Baron Harlech and specialist in the British colonies, geography and Florentine art. Last week Stanley Baldwin, who immunizes his pious convictions against criticism by not looking at a news paper over the long British weekend, named Mr. Ormsby-Gore Secretary of State for the Colonies...
After receiving the $65,000 commission, Milles worked four years at his studio in Cranbrook Academy of Art at Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit, to make a full-scale model which was shipped in sections to St. Paul, where the finished statue's 98 onyx blocks were carved and carefully lifted into place by a crew of workmen. The statue's turntable was motivated by a one-half h. p. motor which slowly swings the Indian 90° to the right in one hour, then 90° to the left next hour. From the second floor level...
...philosophy: "On a cushion which accompanies me everywhere is my philosophy: 'Never complain. Never explain.' Nothing ages a woman like worry or bad temper. . . . Make-up is an art that every woman must learn for herself. There is one element which must always go into it. Plenty of time...
...through the influence of its graduates has really been the most vitalizing force in the profession. For Harvard to fail in this effort, thus sacrificing so much of the achievement to date, will be to admit either that she has not sufficient breadth of vision to recognize the essential art of planning or that she does not feel it important enough to seek further some way of providing for the continuance of the school. Draveaux Bender--Massachusetts State Planning Board Staff Oscar Sutermeister...