Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hugo of a hill town and an impression of his unique etching "Lightning." Beneath, a copy of Delacroix's "Faust" is opened at the lithograph showing Marguerite in Church. The keynote of the exhibition is set by this central group; the remaining displays amplify the union of author and artist...
...contestants and the impressions they made on 20 artist-judges gave the occasion its importance. In the judges' chairs sat such worthies as Composer Arnold Schönberg, Conductor Tullio Serafin, Tenors Paul Althouse and Giovanni Martinelli, Sopranos Gertrude Kappel, Greta Stückgold, Frida Leider. Of the 225 contestants eight had been chosen for the finals. There were Harold Haugh, earnest, 28-year-old theological student from Cleveland; William Roveen, 25, who for four years has earned his music lessons by waiting on table in a summer camp; Paul Ward, whose last job was a clerkship...
...large room in Manhattan's Grand Central Art Galleries were hung last week more than 100 lurid canvases. Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times had suggested the exhibition, Mrs. John Sloan, the artist's wife, had arranged it and Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt had consented to be a patroness. Every one of its pictures was painted in prison...
...piece of linen cloth in a silver casket locked with three silver keys, has belonged to the House of Savoy for 500 years. In 1898 it was the centre of a bitter controversy when art-historians suggested its outline of Christ's body was painted by a French artist in the 14th Century. Guarded day and night by six stalwart carabinieri, its three weeks' ostension last year drew 1,500,000 pilgrims from the ends of the earth. In Cadouin, France, is another Holy Shroud, venerated since the 12th Century, and at Echmiadzin, Armenia, is a Holy Coat...
...arts, bon vivant, first nighter at opera and theatre. As a capitalist he preached the threadbare maxims of success, pointed with pride to the fact that he was advanced in the little bank at Karlsruhe because he licked stamps faster and more efficiently than anyone else. But as an artist he loved freshness and originality. No poet was too obscure to wheedle a little something out of him. Once Communist Michael Gold brought him some play scripts he and his companions had written. Mr. Kahn examined them painstakingly, looked up and said: "You are Socialists and Communists...