Word: dervishness
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...Dervishes. Thirty miles up the coast from Peirce's house, Rockland citizens were getting their first good look at the history of his art. It began with a dingy little Roman Forum painted in 1911, three years after Peirce graduated from Harvard and set forth to explore the views and dives of Europe. After driving a model-T ambulance in World War I, Peirce toured Spain with Ernest Hemingway, produced the exhibition's dark, swirling Bulls at Pamplona. In Tunis, he settled down long enough to be elected to the Isawa, a whirling-dervish society founded about...
...flamboyant Times-Herald, it would mean a return to the distaff rule that the newspaper had known for eleven whirling-dervish, moneymaking years under the late Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson. But there the resemblance ended: in temperament and talent, Bazy and her distant cousin were as different as sugar and spice...
...Like a dervish whirling at three different speeds at once, the U.S. record industry has begun to come apart at the seams. Its head. RCA Victor, has gone flying off at 45 r.p.m.; its right arm, Columbia Records, has spun away at 33½-r.p.m. The body of the industry, including a good part of the Victor and Columbia product, has continued to turn at 78 r.p.m. But one by one, other record companies have been dragged after the two big innovators. Last week Capitol Records, which had already begun to press at the 45 speed on Victortype, seven-inch...
...Publisher Edward Anthony, who spent several hours a day smoothing feathers ruffled by Ruppel, let the dervish whirl for a while. Then Ruppel cooled off and his staff calmed down. Crowell-Col-lier's top management was prepared to string along with Ruppel: in one year, Collier's advertising linage had dropped 15%, and Crowell-Collier's profits had plummeted from $4,866,000 to $2,419,-ooo. For these deep-seated troubles, a drastic cure was needed. Louis Ruppel was about the most drastic remedy to be found anywhere...
...weakness, rival pitchers haven't caught on yet. He hit in 23 consecutive games (the season's longest batting streak). He boasts a fat average of .379 (third highest in the league). In center field, he obviously needs polish, but he covers ground like a wing-footed dervish. His weakness: a none-too-robust throwing arm. Skeptics like to point out that many a brilliant spring rookie has faded before September. But Richie is already being referred to as "Rookie of the Year...