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Word: blackness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Braques, who with Picasso was an exponent of Cubism before 1914, is represented by a "Still Life". Here the predominating tones are black, green and red. The composition, geometric in character, reveals the profitable influence of Cubistic training without being dominated by this school. The artist achieves here a powerful effect by the use of strong outlines which emphasize the objects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXHIBITION OF SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORORY ART IS LAUDED BY CRITIC | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...Inductance and Capacity", Professor Black, Physical Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan, policemen and firemen cornered two murderers in an animal store. Massacre was being done; corpses littered the floor; strangled parakeets lay limp; flapping goldfish gasped for life; fumbling turtles swayed perplexedly. After two hours the killers were subdued- a wicked little monkey and a big. black, bad baboon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Author | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...into the night. It is difficult to tell whether the players are in on the joke. They are as incredible as the plot but that may be just part of the game. Certainly no one was ever more villainous than Arthur Vinton, and without a black moustache, too. The only touch of reality is lent by Betty Lancaster, an ingenue with the makings of a Future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...they must have thought I was trying to do the shimmy, before I'd even thought about it. But after the first minute or so, everything went wonderful and I seemed to have the audience right with me. They never fail to react when I give them that old Black Bottom or some of the rest of my stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gilda Gray Wants to Play Football for Harvard Against Yale--Artist Never Regrets Lack of College Training | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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