Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, hopefully, last week spoke President Samuel Cummins of Classic Productions, impresarios of educational cinemas, concerning what promised to be a hot legal battle over a film he had billed in the following manner...
...French Brussels is of course fiercely anti-Fleming. The photograph showed Queen Elisabeth not merely in the company of Flemings but Flemings drinking Flemish beer. At Her Majesty's elbow loomed a beer keg. Around her in attitudes made classic by Franz Hals lolled a group of Flemish gentlemen carelessly attired, puffing blissfully at their Flemish pipes...
...most scientific of modern artists. In 1900, when he first settled in Paris, he painted gypsies, vagabonds and melancholy children in the manner of Toulouse-Lautrec and Daumier. Always changing his style, he developed what art critics like to call his Blue Period, his Rose Period, his Neo-Classic Period, etc., etc. He became more and more abstract, more and more removed from humanity. Picasso was one of the founders of Cubism. He is the wellspring of that latest artistic unintelligibility, Surrealism, which has been defined as "the expression of thought without the control of reason, that is, the painting...
...mile and a half (distance of the Belmont Stakes since 1926), was a new record for the Belmont; his total money winnings ($164,075) for Wood Memorial, Derby, Belmont and his two-year-old races made it seem likely that in later races this year-the Arlington Classic, at Arlington, 111.; Travers, at Saratoga-he would pass Gallant Fox's record...
After a day's cruise yesterday on the "Corsair", where they were the guests of J. P. Morgan '89, the Crimson oarsmen seemed ready for a week of really hard rowing, since the coming nine days are all that intervene before the inter-collegiate classic regatta at New London a week from next Friday. With the possibility of a time-trial tomorrow if the weather holds good, Whiteside sent his men to the boats this morning as soon as examinations were over...