Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loan exhibitions attract attention not only because they show the work of great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these attractions were powerfully present last week in Manhattan when Knoedler Galleries opened what many critics considered the peak of the season's shows-a loan exhibit of Goya paintings. The pictures came from the discreet walls of Andrew William Mellon, Harrison Williams, Oscar B. Cintas (American Car & Foundry), Eugene G. Grace, Edward S. Harkness, J. Watson Webb. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson (Joan Whitney) sent their...
...Heaven, there is a place and time for it. Will you tell me what is funny about war? What is funny about Bubonic Plague? The CRIMSON'S campaign of advertising and publicity for the crowd of peanut brains who disrupted Friday's meeting was nicely calculated to attract all the lunatic fringe to turn out in expectation of a royal Roman holiday. The gleeful reporting fraternity and cameramen cooperated to make the flasco a howling success. The University had given the National Students League permission to hold the meeting; it had not given such permission to the counter-demonstration. Therefore...
Student in the School when approached on the subject, had little but condemnation for the laboratories there. Some expressed a doubt whether the Harvard Engineering School, unless it improved its equipment, would he able to attract men to the course for more than a few years more...
...present there seem to be only two possible solutions to the problem. Either the Engineering School must improve or it must be discontinued. Graduates assert that there is very little left in the present curriculum to attract men to the School. They claim that Professor Sauveur is the only redeeming feature of the Metallurgy department and that he will soon be forced by age to retire. The presence of the Institute of Technology in the same city should either force the discontinuance of the school or stimulate it to improvement...
...Seton but they see eye-to-eye on most questions. Last fortnight Brother Seton, who is president of National Distillers Products, also had something to say about taxes. He dusted off National Distillers' famed publicity stunt -the whiskey dividend of 1932-and used it once again, not to attract attention but to divert it. Both his customers and his Government were disgruntled with him and all other distillers over high liquor prices. So President Porter released a breakdown of the taxes and expenses which the stockholders had been asked to pay on the whiskey they had received...