Word: charioteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...listeners, but whenever the Congress has met this has always been true and Indians do not mind. To them a palaver of this kind is a great emotional experience and they pay little heed to the shrill, monotonous speeches. Then every nightfall President Bose climbed back into his chariot and was drawn home in triumph by the 51 golden-horned bullocks...
...During the first year of siege the Fifth Regiment in Madrid had the duty of packing off to Valencia the art treasures of the capital (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937).* Public statues, including Madrid's favorite, Cybele, the goddess with the civic crown who has long driven a marble chariot opposite the post office, were sealed in sandbag pyramids...
Founded by John Cain, a onetime policeman, the business expired under his son, quiet, broken-nosed, gold-toothed Patrick Joseph ("Patsy"; Cain. At the height of its run, Cain's was five floors deep in trellises and pillars, spangles and swords, chariot wheels from Ben Hur, a papier-mache elephant from Face the Music, highfalutin gear from Shakespeare revivals, tinsel & gilt from Follies, Scandals, Gaieties. On one single night in 1905 John Cain moved eight shows (94 loads, 654 pieces). His son was always on hand for closings, and the sight of him in the audience required quarts...
...winter of 1926, when the Carnegie Foundation sent an expedition to cooperate with the Mexican Government in exploration and restoration of Chichén-Itzà, greatest Maya city in Yucatan, U. S. archeologists picked up in Mexico City an extraordinary character. Then 28, Artist Jean Chariot was in Mexico partly because his French family had had relatives there even before Maximilian tried to rule Mexico, partly because post-War Paris and Dada were not for him. A solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight championship of the French...
Hired to dig and sketch abstract geometry at Chichén-Itzà, Chariot so impressed the Carnegie archeologists that he was retained for two years, entrusted with writing the expedition's report on Maya art. Meanwhile, Chariot's own work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated...