Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese delegates to the London Naval Conference last week walked reverently with the U. S., British, French and Italian delegates around the great international loan exhibit of Chinese Art at Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 9). The soul of even the most bellicose Japanese is at peace in awe and wonder before marvels of Chinese Art. To the white delegates, most of whom did not escape inner qualms similar to an inferiority complex in Burlington House, sturdy little Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osamu Nagano explained exquisite niceties with elegance and charm...
...tabby cat powers doing anything, but whatever the risk Admiral Nagano was resolved to run it. First, however, he had insisted upon having his cabled instructions from the Son-of-Heaven minutely double-checked by cable while he expatiated in Burlington House upon the loveliness of Chinese Art...
Returning to India, the young Kipling, as he rhymed, "sold his heart to the old Black Art we call the daily press." To his last hour he remained the direct, incisive, fact-hunting and fact-recording journalist, whether in prose, poetry, verse or doggerel. He was estimated to have died with the greatest fortune ever made by an author, something like $3,750,000. In his last in terview in 1935 he said with utter candor: "You must bait your hook with gaudy words. I used to search for words in the British Museum. I read mad poets...
...front cover) Any exhibit opening in the wake of the enormously popular van Gogh show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was bound to begin with an initial handicap. As if this were not enough, the Museum's discreet directors last week placed two additional handicaps upon the first comprehensive showing of one of its finest gift collections, simply because the Museum's principal benefactor happens to have a great name and a great modesty. Handicap No. 1 was encountered on the first floor in the form of a gigantic portrait of beefy, bewhiskered Henry Hobson...
Senator Aldrich bought many an expensive picture in his lifetime. The senior Rockefeller, though never a great collector, felt impelled from time to time to acquire extremely expensive pieces of Oriental art. The junior Rockefeller has limited his own artistic purchases to fine tapestries and sculpture, possibly because the collecting of paintings is so common with the kind of rich man that he dislikes most...