Word: bailiwicks
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Fundamentally it must justify its existence through its attack on pressing question in its own bailiwick. In this respect the Councils authoritative and comprehensive reports have become the bedrock of a good name earned the hard...
...massive Metropolitan, they decided, should concern itself with "classic" art (denned as art which "has become part of the cultural history of mankind"). The glassy, faddish Museum of Modern Art took for its bailiwick everything "still significant in the contemporary movement." And Greenwich Village's Whitney Museum-the youngest of the three, and something of a poor relation at the conference table-agreed to stick...
...Jersey, the pattern was the same. Red-faced, stiff-collared Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City had long been delivering 100,000 pluralities in his Hudson County bailiwick. That was what it took to outvote the Republican suburbs and farmlands. But six years of being at odds with the State House had begun to count. Hague spent money as never before: electioneers got $10 or $20 a day instead of the usual $5. It was not enough. Starved of patronage, outfoxed by voting machines, Hague could deliver only a measly 67,000 plurality in his home county. With another enemy...
...British muscled in on Chicago last week. In the heart of Anglophobe Colonel Robert McCormick's bustling bailiwick they set up a loan exhibition of 62 of Britain's best paintings, by Hogarth, Constable, and Turner. The British Ambassador, Lord Inverchapel, was on hand at Chicago's Art Institute to open the show with a suitably democratic address. Said he: "[These] painters . . . are all of the humble English earth; very earthy, simple folk, men of the people...
...surprising, therefore, that Al McCoy, who is the only member of Coach Dick Harlow's coaching staff remaining around the Holyoke Street bailiwick this summer, should have many interesting things to say about Crimson gridiron prospects for the 1946 season...