Word: content
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island. He would seem to be the ideal public servant from the standpoint of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. But the campaign which dark, dynamic Mr. Moses waged last autumn as Republican nominee for Governor of New York was not calculated to win him friends in Washington. Not content with the stock Republican charge that Federal relief and PWA funds were generally being used for patronage purposes, he named names, cited cases. Hard and sharp were his jabs at President Roosevelt's good friends Herbert Lehman, James A. Farley and Basil O'Connor (Mr. Roosevelt...
...them. The Frick art library grew & grew. A librarian had to be hired, then assistants; finally a house was built to hold it all. The Frick Art Reference Library, like Sir Robert Witt's in London, chose to specialize in photographs of works of art. It did not content itself with buying prints of pictures in museums, private collections and dealer galleries. Instead, it put special photographers under contract in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U. S., sent them to obscure collections, little-known churches, private houses...
Japanese call their country Nippon, but the Son of Heaven is content in his wisdom to let foreigners go on calling it "Japan...
With the greatest of gusto and good humor he ceaselessly tries to explain his theories of the emotional value of color, and in particular his fondness for brilliant reds. Slow-witted listeners generally retire baffled, content that the "Vermillionaire's" colors, whatever they may mean, are pure, shrewdly chosen, and form most decorative patterns...
...piano Stravinsky became a composer more important, his champions insist, than Richard Strauss or Jean Sibelius, the other great S's of 20th Century music. Stravinsky's father, a basso at the Maryinsky Theatre in Petrograd, encouraged the boy so long as he was content to remain an amateur. He went dutifully to the University to study law but his marks were consistently poor. At 20 the die of his career was cast when the great Rimsky-Korsakoff took him for a pupil...