Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depression brought him back from the University of Minnesota at the end of his sophomore year. The family had moved to Huron, where Hubert worked in the drugstore, slept in the basement, and ate at the fountain to save money...
...things-which sell for four-and five-figure sums. One of his first was South of Scranton, a surrealistically weird picture of sailors soaring through the air under a crow's nest, which took first prize at the 1934 Carnegie International and now resides in the basement of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. His next was the Museum of Modern Art's Eternal City-in which a bilious, jack-in-the-box Mussolini rules over a ruined square. "I hope," says Blume fervently, "that I won't get involved in still another big picture, but I suppose...
This week in London, the Royal Academy, having worked over Tate's basement trove, put the whole collection on show in its Piccadilly museum. The Academy hopes to prove the error of Scoffer Rothenstein's ways, to end what it considers a "mischievous and unseemly controversy." Rothenstein hopes gallerygoers will laugh the collection back to the cellar. In a sense, he will be on show himself. From a group study entitled The Princess Badroulbadour, painted by his father Sir William Rothenstein, the young John of 1908 will gaze, fixed and helpless, at the passing jury...
...Bargain Basement. It was not an altogether deserved fate for Wolchok. A onetime grocery clerk, an earnest and unpolished man, he had been president of the department store union since its founding in New York in 1937. From the very beginning the union was ridden by Communists. Department store clerks -sometimes college-educated, generally low-paid, and frequently resentful-were susceptible to Communist colonizing. It was once said: "When the revolution comes it will start in a bargain basement...
Because the last remnants of the estate of Samuel Insull, farthings-to-millions Midwest utilitycoon of the '20s, were cluttering up the basement of a La Salle Street office building, a Chicago judge ordered the old bonds, canceled debentures, stock certificates, vouchers, receipts, and canceled checks (about 50,000 papers weighing three tons) sold as scrap paper at public auction. Estimated scrap value...