Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Praise in lesser degree he has for John Sloan, Boardman Robinson, John Steuart Curry, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, William Cropper. He plays with the suggestion that Communism may prove the regeneration of art but only if the idea of Communism produces art, not if art is propaganda for the ideas of Communism...
...many a summer season in the past, takes the part of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner who finds himself in danger of having to execute himself. Yum-Yum, one of his wards, is Hizi Koyke. Her suitor, the Mikado's wandering minstrel son, is played by Roy Cropper, a young man with a pleasingly liquid tenor...
...Hurray for Huey Long and his pajamas!" shrieked the throng. After booing their own Governor because he was not a "Drop-a-Cropper," the 7,000 Texas farmers adopted a resolution endorsing unqualifiedly the Long plan for no 1932 cotton planting...
...succeeded so well she became a frequent preacher. As her fame spread, her ambition grew. Then she fell in love, married a good workman, but kept on preaching. When her husband was killed in an accident, she even preached at the funeral. Susan and her religion both came a cropper when she met young Clarabut, a penniless wastrel who admired her but would not take her Message seriously. Clarabut got in Susan's blood. She dropped everything for him, went to live with him in London. Their marriage was passionate, bitter, quarrelsome, brief. When Susan finally left...
Halfway between Artist Lynd Ward (God's Man, Madman's Drum} and Cartoonist Milt Gross (He Done Her Wrong} comes Satirist William Cropper. Without Ward's arty symbolism or Gross's simple artfulness, he tells a straight story, then horses it a little...