Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury also operates the Ritz of relief projects for artists, known as the Treasury Relief Art Project. TRAP's director is Olin Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more than 400 artists from relief rolls, to be chosen for artistic ability alone. Already TRAP artists look down their noses at their WPA brethren...
...Only last week Manhattan newshawks discovered a WPA supervisor named George K. Gombarts who had been put in charge of a number of carpenters, plumbers and unemployed artists to remodel a condemned public school as a free art school. At the end of several months they had completed the supervisor's private office with bath & dressing room, imitation Tudor stone fireplace, stained glass windows, hand-painted draperies and a Flemish tapestry of a knight in shining armor striding toward a castle. The knight is George K. Gombarts. "It's a dream we had," said Supervisor Gombarts last week...
...Mechau's barbering was sufficiently remunerative for him to send his son to the University of Denver, the Chicago Art Institute, and to start him off on twelve years of study in Paris, Florence, Munich and other European Museums...
...Zone with lavish equipment, is now deep in the jungle in canoes. Tom Roch popped up again, went off in search by foot with another U. S. adventurer. A Dutch expedition started along another route to the unknown interior. Most publicized expedition of all was that started by Pilot Art Williams, who taught Redfern...
...still plugging ahead, when there came an event which first blew the lid off the yarn, then clamped it back more confusingly than ever. In a Paramaribo newspaper appeared the tale of one Alfred Harred, newshawk and alleged member of an expedition to determine the boundary of British Guiana: "Art Williams, two Indians and I took off, landed on a tributary of the main Amazon . . . started to trek across the Tumuc-Humac Mountains. . . . After several days we came to a village where all Indians were completely nude. We saw an airplane caught in the branches of a big tree...