Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slogan: "Feathers Instead of Bullets." Half-naked Mr. Hockaday next burst into the Washington office of Acting Secretary of War Woodring, where he dumped 40 Ib. of feathers to discourage warfare. When this lively eccentric tried the same thing at the Maryland State American Legion Convention at Baltimore last August, the Legionaries gave him an unmerciful beating. Since then peace-loving Woody Hockaday had been recuperating in a mental asylum...
...spent the entire year on two enormous lunettes representing the Defeat and Triumph of Justice for the Attorney General's new conference room.* They are not yet finished, for Artist Kroll takes his commission seriously, has found mural painting more difficult than he expected. In July and August he went on vacation to his favorite Folly Cove, Cape Ann, Mass., where he has summered since 1930. He set up an easel in the back garden, painted the only canvas he has had time for since starting work on the Department of Justice murals. It showed a dirt road winding...
...Smithsonian Institution was created by Act of Congress in 1846. Last August it observed its goth birthday, received congratulations from its presiding officer ex officio, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week its gaunt, assiduous Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot published his annual report for fiscal 1935, which furnished a good picture of the multitudinous doings in one year of the ramified organization whose headquarters are in an old red sandstone castle on a broad lawn off Constitution Avenue...
...should wake up tomorrow morning and through the course of the day find your home-loving mother being courted by a roue, your august father succumbing to the soft inpeachments of an ogling actress, your elder sister flinging herself at a married artist, and your younger brother making love to a woman who enters and exits over the garden wall, you doubtless would retire to bed in the evening, very willing to "call it a day." Dodie Smith has conceived of just such a situation and she has fittingly dubbed her play "Call It A Day." After the delightful performance...
...executive offices in Chicago's Conway Building appeared a big bouquet of red roses from his wife, marking his tenth wedding anniversary. The roses also served as a remembrance for his 42nd birthday. Meantime Mr. Alexander's Masonite published its annual report for the fiscal year through August showing record profits, celebrated its tenth business birthday, announced a refinancing plan and split its stock...