Word: ashcan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Sloan's place in contemporary art is so thoroughly accepted that he is in danger of being taken for granted. Gallery-goers find it hard to realize that his atmospheric, human scenes of pre-War-I Manhattan were damned as paintings of "The Ashcan School" when his group of realists held their first show in 1908. Last week he summed himself up: "I never thought of one of my good pictures as art while painting it. Whether it was art or not, it was what I wanted to do. . . . I am grateful to have lived this long...
...sorry injustice by limiting our readers to the total number of our weekly circulation. More accurate would be 17,000,000 weekly copies; 85,000,000 smalltown, rural and homesick metropolitan readers. For ours is no subway sedative completing its life-cycle from press to ashcan within two hours...
Prime Ministers of British Dominions cabled to Neville Chamberlain their Cabinets' warmest congratulations. The British Labor movement, never militantly class-conscious and just plain anxious not to fight, was this week-as usual-the despair of those British forces which would have liked to ashcan Stanley Baldwin, would now like to ashcan Neville Chamberlain. It was no worker but an especially gilded British aristocrat, the husband of Mayfair's glamorous Lady Diana ("The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle") Duff Cooper, who was first in London to take up potent cudgels against the Prime Minister...
Bessie Pastor did not forget her synthetic ice problem. She tried great numbers of compounds and concoctions, threw thousands of dollars' worth of material into the ashcan...
...fire was started by spontaneous combustion in an ashcan in the catacombs. It is said that the can was filled with the left-overs from a celebration by Warren P. Munsell, Jr. ocC, and Thomas C. Dillon '37 in honor of Harvard's victory at New London this June...