Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what will become of the amateur critic and his criticism when he learns that the criterion of his artistic judgment has been attacked upon very sound grounds? Professor Alfred E. Zimmern the noted English educator, condemns Harkness for its "imitativeness of Europe" and grows eloquent over the Bush Terminal Building because it represents "a real piece of the American mind." The word "piece" is important, since it leaves one to believe there are other pieces...
...metropolis, for one side of the shining tonneau was tastefully draped in ar large British Union Jack, the other in a large U. S. flag. In it sat three high hats-Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, British Consul; Walter L. Clark, President of the Grand Central Art Galleries; Irving T. Bush, Art patron. They were waiting for Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., to arrive from Washington. On the other side of Manhattan Island, 4,000 people-said to be the largest assemblage ever to attend a New York exhibition-waited for him also. For this Ambassador...
Dreaming forest, flowery bush, red cliff, turquoise sea; that is Montauk Point, Long Island, N. Y. In Montauk, Childe Hassam, famed artist, paints pictures of the countryside. Last week, he exhibited a group of them in Manhattan. It is always afternoon in Montauk; there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads...
...stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued on to Cayenne, where he observed the tragic life of the French convicts. From there he crossed the Maroni River to Albina, the frontier of Dutch Guiana, where he visited the villages of the Carid Indians and the primitive bush negroes. With the negroes, he travelled by canoe through the heart of the tropical forests of Dutch Guiana to the Cottoca River, and on to Paramaribo, the end of his trip. His speech tonight will be full of reminiscences of his stirring experiences on this expedition...
Although denying emphatically any such exciting and adventurous experiences as the CRIMSON reported him to have had he did admit under pressure to having hunted for five days in company with his brother during which time he "saw" a lion, and shot a few African bush animals of the same genus as the American skunk...