Word: cannoneer
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Landscape in etching has a fairly definite starting point. That is Durer's plate known as "The Cannon," shown in a fine impression. Remarkable in every way, it stands as the first pure landscape print, as an achievement in panoramic composition, as his last etching. It is all in line, individual strokes that build up the texture of the earth, even the tone...
...strange that such a penetration into a new field inspired other ventures in landscape. There comes Hendrik Goltzins, the engraver, whose two woodcut prints in great boldness of line, alone of all the early examples could be safely hung beside the strength of the "Cannon." There also was Augustin Hirschvogel, the etcher, whose print betrays the limited grasp of landscape forms in his day and there is Lautensack who loses himself in the struggle to record the whole tangle of a forest...
Pianist Harney, who had toured the West and Midwest long before he started the craze in Manhattan, launched a nation-wide school of ragtime composers, active during the early 1900s. Prominent followers included Lucky Roberts (Pork and Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...
...young missionaries in foreign lands at all times, the Church proposes to train them in short; wave techniques, send them their instructions by radio, hear in return how the programs-news, music, lectures, little religion-are received. The Church's fourth man-in-command, Presiding Bishop Sylvester Quayle Cannon, informed the F.C.C. that $1,500,000 is immediately available to build the station. Furthermore, the Church makes $40,000 to $50,000 a year from its interest in Salt Lake commercial Station KSL. An examiner for the F.C.C. therefore reported that "the applicant is financially, legally, technically, and otherwise...
Even then, despite its small staff, TIME kept its readers abreast of the news, if not ahead of it. During the first six months TIME'S cover subjects included not only the figures of 1923 (Uncle Joe Cannon, Warren Harding, Eleanor Duse, King Fuad, Hugo Stinnes, Andrew Mellon, E. M. House) but some who belong very much to 1938: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mustafa Kamâl Attatürk, Burton K. Wheeler, Benito Mussolini, John L. Lewis...