Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually attracting 1,000 or so black heathens. Sending word of his imminence by their signal drums, the Negroes called him "White Song Man," dubbed Bishop Moore "Biscuit" or "Wangi Bischoff" (Yankee bishop). For the trombone they could think of no descriptive word. A practiced sleight-of-hand artist who claims he once could do with one hand a flag trick which Magician Howard Thurston needed two to perform, Song Man Rodeheaver performed legerdemain for the Africans, taking care not to let them think that magic had anything to do with...
Highlight of the exhibition was Artist Salvador Dali's living design, Phantom of Sex Appeal, for which Artist Sheila Legge solemnly glided through the crowded, stuffy gallery in a tight white satin gown, her head in a wire cage covered with pink paper rosebuds, a facsimile female leg in her hand. She had substituted the leg for a pork chop prescribed by Artist Dali...
...ARTIST'S GAME BAG-Lynn Bogue Hunt-Derrydale...
People who can afford Hardy trout-rods and Purdy shotguns can afford books like this. In fact, 25 such persons may spend $125 each for a leather-bound autographed copy of Artist Hunt's sketch book and put it away for their grandsons to look at when buffleheads, woodcock, black-breasted plover, wild turkeys and the like are extinct. Artist Hunt is the man who makes animal stories look so attractive in fiction magazines. This volume testifies eloquently that he, like Etcher Frank Benson, has gone to nature for his learning, really knows his game. The publisher will somewhat...
PERELA - Aldo Palazzeschi - Vanni ($2.50). Virtually unreadable fantasy, in dialog form, dealing with the adventures of a "man of smoke" in a nameless kingdom. Prescribed by the publisher as good for what ails "the tired businessman; the psychiatrist, psychologist or Freudian; the political radical or conservative; the artist, philosopher or poet; the scholar, teacher or student," Perela should put them all to sleep in short order...