Word: cubists
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...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...
...Slant-eyed Cubist Queen" is the second newly added number. It will be sung by Joseph Larocque Jr. '23 assisted by a special-chorus of "cubist queens" composed of D. S. Elisworth '22, J. G. Flint '24, G. L. Paine Jr. '22, and John McDuffie...
...current number of the Advocate should be dedicated to O. Henry, for the three stories depend on the problem of mistaken identity which he handled so supremely well. Of them, P. R. Mechem's "Burley knows a Cubist" alone is done with any particular skill. The style in description and conversation is light and the characters are cleverly sketched, although the close is distinctly weak. W. D. Crane in "Bully" and L. Wood, Jr., in "Short, Sweet and Bitter" do not succeed so well in following the difficult master. Both attempt what few people can accomplish skilfully in clearing...