Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
...Charles Brook, a London County Councilor, shocked no one last week when he declared: "The time is not far distant when the present panel system will be brought within the scope of the State medical service, and when those now engaged in panel practice will become full-time servants of the State...
...under the watchful eye of Maurice Sterne. Sir Francis Rose, Gertrude Stein's latest painter-protege, was showing his sultry canvases. The Museum of Modern Art was aflame with Van Goghs, Cezannes, Toulouse-Lautrecs. At the New School for Social Research Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Brackman, John Sloan and Alexander Brook were impressing their pupils with their craftsmanship...
...need of a large navy to protect Manachukuo and the status quo of the Far East; her economic necessity of concentrating in small rather than large ships; her fear of heavy American and British navies in the Pacific as an actual threat to herself, and her determination not to brook the superiority complex of the Occidentals in their efforts to limit the size of her armaments...
Died. Mrs. Zoe Dana Underbill, 87, daughter of the late, great Charles Anderson Dana, onetime owner & editor of the New York Sun. Born on Brook Farm. Mass., in whose famed Socialist-Utopian experiment her father was a prime mover, she was its last surviving member...