Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finally, we hear of 'Artistic Imperialism'; we hear that America draws to herself all of Europe's great artists. But is that the fault of the Americans? An artist is a man, a man like another man, and it is not surprising that he would rather sing, paint or play the piano for $1,000 a day in the United States than for $1,000 a month in Europe...
...this afternoon?" Vainly each man pleaded, reasoned, expostulated, protested ; begged to know why his paper was being excluded from this, the picture of pictures! Most vehement was the reporter from the Mirror, which had heralded the advance of Baby Lindbergh for some six months and had printed a large "artist's conception" of the mother & child on the birthday. To all questions Col. Lindbergh returned a smile of increasing breadth and the reply: "Sorry, I can't answer that today...
After the Armistice, John Bullock gets his job back. Artist William Kennode, whose numerous woodcuts are grafted into the text, shows a picture very much like the frontispiece: Clerk Bullock back at his old desk, but now his boss is a younger instead of an older man, himself prematurely middleaged, one-legged...
Author Williamson and Artist Kennode fought side by side in Flanders. For four years Williamson never went home, were never out of the trenches more than 4 hours. After the War he worked on the London Daily News, then retired to a workman's cottage in Devonshire to learn to write. Other books: The Dream of Fail-Women, The Lone Swallows, Sun Brothers, The Old Stag, Tarka the Otter, The Pathway, The Wet Flanders Plain, Dandelion Days...
...book takes up the life-story of each of the twelve jurors in the murder trial, starting with each man's birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer, the manager of a carburetor factory, a millionaire, a German shopkeeper, a certified public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive for his preposterous crimes, what these twelve men voted...