Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stealing, said they, the New Deal's thunder was now a low faint rumble far over the hills. But everybody recognized that, whether talking politics or philosophy, the ex-President was spending his time these days with sturdy, middle-of-the-road Republicans-the Homer Bunkers, Frank Fetzers, Art Priaulxs -who seemed to stand not for big business ideas or reform, but for fishing, making money, listening to Herbert Hoover, and voting...
...house was quiet. Mr. Doell went through the carefully furnished rooms on the lower floor. Without pausing to admire the objets d'art from the Orient and the Near East, Mr. Doell mounted the stairs. Through the open door of a bedroom he noted a rumpled bed, a blue bathrobe flung carelessly over it, on the floor a pair of men's large bedroom slippers. He peeked into a study packed with books, filing cabinets, a globe. On the floor an Assyrian water pipe, two-thirds-filled, caught...
...chief interest is still in art of one sort or another," according to the Post. "She has nimble fingers and her latest hobby is making rag dolls out of scraps of materials; also dogs and more fantastic animals. . . . Hitler also favors Evi's special Thuringian potato dumplings...
...Japanese looted indiscriminately and efficiently. Everything of value was stripped and taken away. Telephones, wires, clocks, soaps, bedding, objects of art were collected by the Japanese for transfer to their own supply department. On their own, the soldiers went in for simpler forms of looting. Clothes and food were what they wanted, and they were not very discriminate in their tastes: women's silk garments, peasant cotton trousers, shoes, underwear, were all stripped off the backs of their possessors whenever Chinese were unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of Japanese detachments...
...like this one do more than wreak havoc in their own particular industries; they besmirch the name of the entire labor movement. If allowed to go on as they are now, they will ultimately work their own destruction, but in the debacle they may ruin the drama as an art. Playwright and flyman alike have a heavy stake in cleaning up the mess...