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Word: canvases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In France, excellent directors must be growing on every pomegranate tree or lurking in every ash-can. This time it is Marcel Carne who has sent over a directorial masterpiece in "Port of Shadows." Casual movie-goers, who are frequently puzzled as to what a director does besides sit in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

Ten years ago many U. S. leftwing painters turned away from canvas as being too bourgeois, began to slap murals on every bare space they could find. Five years ago, with WPA's advent, most of them got commissions to paint the walls of post offices, law courts, schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Muralist Team | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

When the men came into the ring, the odds were 3-1 on Nova. But what went on after the opening bell made mugs of many an expert-John Kieran, Hype Igoe, Jack Dempsey, Jim Braddock, Tommy Loughran. Not since the day of Elbows McFadden had fight fans seen such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beer Barrel Palooka | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Artist Curry himself devised the ingenious arrangement of ropes and pulleys that holds the two paintings back-to-back in his studio, flips them like a coin for his inspection. Full of movement as a cinema is Oklahoma Land Rush (see cut), with its wheels carrying a circular motion clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Land Office Business | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Ballerina Vera Zorina (real name: Eva Brigitta Hartwig), nimble-limbed star of I Married an Angel, announced that on her forthcoming trip to Europe she hopes to spend much of the time in the nude. In Chicago she has ordered a is-ft. canvas roof enclosure, on the Normandie a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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