Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have long had the Edison phonograph, the Maxim silencer, the Bell telephone. Now we are to have the Steinmetz truck. Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, " wizard of Schenectady," has been working for several years to perfect an electrical truck. The product of his efforts has been placed on the market, and full-page advertisements are appearing in the newspapers. They bear a statement over Dr. Steinmetz's signature that the trucks effect a saving of from 25 to 50 per cent over gasoline and horse-drawn vehicles, and a picture of the inventor-perfecto in mouth-covering a quarter...
...they as valuable as it is claimed? Certainly they have had a distinct influence on modern art. But Clive Bell, one of the sanest of modern critics, says that he intends "to keep his head" about Negro art. He maintains that they show taste and skill, but not profundity of vision, and that they lack originality, duplicating without question the conventions of their predecessors for generation after generation. In other words, the Negro art, which has been too much ignored, is now in danger of being equally overpraised...
...citizens of this historic town had the opportunity on Tuesday to hear Jeritza in Thais. It is not recorded that the Liberty Bell began to ring, or that the Continental Congress reconvened to render a vote of thanks to the beauty. But Jeritza enacted the role of the wild lady of Alexandria who turned nun-as wild ladies sometimes do today-and there was applause enough...
...Clive Bell, distinguished English critic and pontiff of modernism, declares cubism is in decline. It has served its purpose of freeing art from conventional restraints, and is in danger of becoming itself a mere convention...
...avoid confusion and to keep the dances up to schedule a bell will be rung at the beginning of each dance. Cutting-in will be permissible only during the encores. The complete musical program follows...