Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copenhagen coal-dealer, he started posing for the Danish court painter Frants Henningsen at the age of 13, later studied in his studio. When Torvald was 19 and a great hulking youth famed as a school gymnast, his teacher suggested that he ought to travel, to see the great art galleries of Europe. Hoyer promptly picked up another muscular schoolmate named Max and formed a tumbling team. Vaudeville engagements came quickly. Soon they teamed up with four other tumblers, became the Montrose Six, moved on to acrobatic triumphs...
...turned over active direction to his son Amory Houghton, 36-year-old Harvard graduate who worked in the glassblowing department before becoming a company executive and who heads the Boy Scouts in the Corning district. The Corning Glass Works makes electric light bulbs, thermometers, rail-way-signals, laboratory equipment, art-glass, all manner of glass specialties. It developed Pyrex. a heat-resisting glass most familiar in the form of baking-dishes but also used in radio and other insulation...
...Maria had left home to study art, not just to leave home. She lived cheaply in the attic of a Munich boarding house, worked all day every day at the studio where she was the only girl. She had talent, but she was also pretty, 20. Elderly fellow-boarders mooed at her yearningly; she hardly noticed. Young Painter Erni went tramping with her in the country and might have had her for the asking, but he had scruples. Sculptor Ulitsch, ruthless woman-hunter, fascinated her, then frightened her away. She took refuge with an unfeminine girlfriend, and Bohemia was soon...
Last week the most enigmatic and dramatic of contemporary U. S. writers, from an exile that has lasted 24 years, offered readers his first novel, a work of art so astonishing in view of his past efforts, so unusual in its own right, that even dissenting critics could hail it as a piece of intellectual audacity without precedent in U. S. literature...
...classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree of intelligence in Santayana's students, merely wanted to know how many of them there were...