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...Artist Marsh has followed the recent revival of interest in mural painting. Paintings shown last week were not on canvas but in tempera on panels coated with gesso. They had an obvious architectural quality. Best were "Swinging Carrousel," a tremendously forceful study of figures whirling on a Coney Island merry-go-round, and "Gaiety Burlesque," an etching of bloated faces leering at a Callipygian beauty on a runway, that was listed in the Institute of Graphic Arts' 50 prints of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cynic's Progress | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...Cleveland gathering provided a great carrousel and carousal for flyers and planes. As the affair started 45 plane manufacturers, 16 enginemakers, 146 accessory firms had exhibits in Cleveland's public auditorium and annex. The municipal airport was bedecked with new buildings, grandstands and wire fences. A street parade of floats inaugurated the festivities. Army, Navy and Marine planes performed over the city. Detroit's new all-metal dirigible made a visit. Commercial planes capered in from all directions. Almost every famed U. S. flyer was there, almost every important air industrialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: On to Cleveland | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

More, by studying such columns you can buy a Wire-Walking Male Dog, a Live Alligator, a Carrousel, the Lord's Prayer on a Pinhead, a Two-Headed Child, a Devil's Bowling Alley. Opportunity plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Sisters Wow in Tab | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

...various places where the guillotine was erected were then described. The scaffold was first set up in the Place de Greve, whence it was transported to the Place de la Revolution, then to the Place du Carrousel, and again back to the Place de la Revolution. Later, in deference to the objections raised by the business men on the streets leading to the spot, it was moved to the east end of the city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Peregrinations of the Guillotine." | 2/25/1904 | See Source »

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