Word: cubist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cubist style may be used in the design for the Dramatic Club poster for its forthcoming play, "The Makropulos Affair", it was intimated yesterday by the club's officers in announcing the inauguration of the poster competition, set for this afternoon at 1.30 at the Dramatic Club office...
...unsuspected power in books themselves. Nowhere does a volume look so diabolically alluring as on the shelves of a bookshop. Books of all colors, sizes, shapes, fairly leap from the tastefully arranged display tables. They shout at one in unmistakable superlatives of blurbs. On one jacket a lurid cubist decoration fairly startles the unwilling hand into the sparsely lined pocket; on another, the charming features of its young authoress entice with promises of a vicarious intimacy; on still another, the names of the great array themselves in an overwhelming aggregate of authority, making it almost a duty...
...person, he was short and rugged. His square white beard made him look " like the work of a cubist sculptor." He was little given to making speeches, but when he spoke his words were blunt, honest and logical. His manner and his habits were simple and old fashioned. It is recorded that for many years after he came into prominence Mrs. Nelson used to have the floors of their home sanded...
...revival of the famous arts and crafts factories of pre-war Russia is apparently contemplated by the Soviet Government. Futurist and cubist ornamentation will be encouraged, perhaps as part of the general drive against "bourgeois civilization...
...most successful recent use of expressionism is in the Theatre Guild's production of Ibsen's astonishing poetic drama, Peer Gynt. Full-grown people live in dwarfed houses; deserts are indicated by a suggestion of sand; fjords, oceans, mountains become a pile of cubist rocks and a blue line on the backdrop...