Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, a whimsical headline artist produced the following: "DR. COOK AS NEAR PAROLE AS POLE." The news was that Federal Judge James C. Wilson of Fort Worth, Tex., had granted probationary freedom to Dr. Cook, under a 1925 law which allows Federal judges to liberate prisoners. But, U. S. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, a Vermont country product, announced that he wanted to test this law in the courts. Judge Wilson agreed, recalled his probation order. So, Dr. Cook, who waited for no poles, must wait for the U. S. courts. Whatever happens, he will be eligible for parole...
...Lampoon is sadly in need of some draughtsmen on its editorial staff. A sound knowledge of drawing and particularly of anatomy is essential to the successful humorous artist or caricaturist. To distort the human figure it is first necessary to know how to draw it normally. Look at the work of Frank Reynolds or Ernest Shepard of "Funch" and also cast a lingering glance upon the efforts of Fournier and Brunner in "La Vie Parisienne...
...Society of Independent Artists in Manhattan has for many years boasted of its exemption from any jury system of selection of exhibits. If an artist so desires, he can hang himself in the place allotted him. It is completely free from censorship. Everything offered is exhibited. This record is stained by but one smirch: a year ago a painter succeeded in executing a work which the Society felt it was unable to present...
...mountains"; and then proceeds to untangle the Balkan post-War skein. His major prophecy is the gradual supplanting of France by Italy as the chief European force in the Balkans. With such heavy fare the reader should take a fluffy, gorgeously illustrated Balkan trave17 book by a U. S. artist who opens with the premise "All travelers are liars!" and proceeds to lie, erotically but suavely, about his adventures on tour...
...right after it has been worshiped by refined slaves, suggests degeneracy to most of her critics. The impassive Gubbio thinks not. He can understand it is her subtle revenge upon men who desire only that part of her which she scorns. Her revenge upon Giorgio, a pure youth, an artist, had to be yet more subtle because the injury he did her was worse than the others. He enjoyed only her body and that only esthetically, for his art, on his canvas. So she seduced him, promised him, denied, then betrayed...