Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stop, Casteret inhaled enough breath for two minutes, dived into the tunnel, ready to turn back after one minute if he did not reach the siphon's end. It was short, however, and he soon emerged into another grotto. This was the beginning of explorations in the Grotte de Montespan which eventually led to the discovery of subterranean galleries inhabited by the Magdalenian cave dwellers of 20,000 years ago. Some of the Magdalenian clay images of animals were riddled with holes, apparently made by spears. Others had arrows or human hands carved on their flanks: symbols of human...
Hung at the Galerie de Beaune, it consisted of 39 thickly painted canvases depicting sections of expensive real estate in the south of France, all done in a brilliance of color and a gush of technique which suggested the ebullitions of a talented school girl. Explained tanned, bright-eyed, wisecracking Artist Picabia, with an air of deep subtlety: "I painted them because I wanted to." Picabia enthusiasts spoke in awed tones of the master's daring in risking banality by a return to nature. But a growing number of critics called it reversion to type, dismissed Picabia...
Hard to Get (Warner Bros.), like The Cowboy and the Lady, deals with romance between a poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald. Maurice Leo, Richard Macauley, Wally Klein, Joseph Schrank), it shows a few deviations from pattern which give it an unexpected and agreeable individuality. Sample: when the heiress (as in The Cowboy and the Lady) adopts the invariable ruse of impersonating her own maid, her father, instead of objecting, happily arranges...
...Court ploughed that first AAA under in 1936, Frank Theis sold wheat in Kansas City, Mo., and the Government began fighting surpluses by stimulating distribution rather than just limiting production. Last week, Frank Theis and the U. S. Government were back together again-on the front pages of Rio de Janeiro newspapers...
With the exception of Bemelmans' studies under a picturesque painter and two trips back home, most of his" story is laid in and behind the swanky dining rooms of the Hotel "Splendide." As material for a comic opera or a sociological study in snob techniques and de luxe rackets, Bemelmans' revelations serve equally well...