Word: dale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What does your husband call you-my wife, the missus or my woman? What do you say-a dingle, dale, gulch, dell, vale or gully? Father, pa, pop, popper, pappy, dad or daddy? Has a cherry a seed,.stone or pit? These things you may be asked if you live in New England and if during the next 15 months you do not deliberately snub or elude the inquisitive gentleman who represents the American Council of Learned Societies. Armed with a list of 1,000 questions, he will be combing the countryside, quizzing housewives, laborers, farmers, bankers, fisherfolk. To compile...
...painter has been as wildly praised, as furiously attacked. Mrs. Chester Dale, famed collector, writes of Picasso: "Like a god, he destroys Nature itself when the impulse seizes him and recreates it in a new and more wonderful form which he has discovered." Hearstwriter Brisbane of the New York Evening Journal, stung to rage by a Picasso abstraction, reproduced it last fortnight, added, "You feel ashamed for the human race when you realize that stuff as this [sic] is actually shown and bought by people supposed to be sane...
...this he was caught, indicted. On trial at Evansville last week he admitted that one Walter Ayer had given him $750 and that he had recom- mended Ayer's son Gresham for a rural carriership, that he had received $800 from another source and procured the postmanship at Dale for S. Grant Johnson. But he insisted these receipts were not bribes. The Government prosecutor produced pin-pricked $100 bills used to trap Rowbottom. When after two hours' deliberation the jury found him guilty on four counts, Elizabeth Margaret Rohsenberger Rowbottom, his wife, fainted dead away...
...Chester Dale is a stockbroker, member of the firm of W. C. Langley & Co. On the Floor his name is sometimes associated with that of M. J. ("Mike") Meehan, famed Radio specialist. Always interested in art, by 1923 the Dales were sufficiently affluent to begin collecting. They did it with a rush. After four years picture dealers and critics rated the Chester Dale collection as one of the four or five most important collections of modern art in the U. S. Antique dealers know that Mrs. Dale's collection of furniture and early American glass is nearly as good...
...lent portraits of lovely ladies for the open show. Artists represented ranged from early Romantic Théodore Géricault. Courbet, Cabanel to ultramodern Marie Laurencin and Jean Lurçat Lovely ladies painted included the Duchess of Rutland Russian Dancer Ida Rubenstein (by Leon Bakst) and Maud Dale thingly disguised as Mme D. by Jean...