Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly 600 novice architects began work on the preliminary problem for the 25th annual $4,000 Paris prize of Manhattan's Society of Beaux-Arts Architects. All but eight of these were eliminated on the second problem, and in April all but four. The four were told to design an opera house, were put into four small cubicles in the Beaux-Arts Institute. They were isolated, put on their honor not to communicate with each other, given ten weeks to finish...
...independent income, a neat wit, and taught for six years at the Art Students' League. Hayley Lever, 55, who is witty too, taught at the Art Students' League too. Bernard Karfiol, 46, who was born in Budapest, studied at the National Academy of Design. Landscapes are rated the safest possible investments. Excepting only Marsh's picture of Bowery bums under the elevated railroad and Coleman's speakeasy interior, all the purchases were landscapes. Observers agreed the Metropolitan's conservatism had thawed, but not much...
...faculties and buy a certain mattress because a certain society leader allowed one to be photographed in her house; to buy a certain cigarette because a movie actress finds its advertisements a convenient vehicle for her publicity; to buy a new car because the paint job resembles in color design the wings of the peacock or the inner gleam of the emerald; or to seek the "taste" of a certain cigarette because "in the ring it's punch"; we are asked to believe that social success and domestic happiness depend primarily on ability to play the gazook or freedom from...
...force the Free State of Prussia back under direct rule by the German Government seemed the bold design last week of Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, bristling Chancellor of the Fatherland's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles" (TIME, June 13). In the old days when Wilhelm II was both German Emperor and King of Prussia the two cabinets were of course interlocked. Therefore the Fatherland seethed with monarchist rumors as Chancellor von Papen put the screws on Prussia. This he did by abruptly forbidding a payment of 100,000,000 marks ($23,700,000) from the German Treasury...
...Britain's most fashionable sculptor when he began a long woe by doing the winged Eros for Piccadilly Circus honoring the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It was paid for, refused, abused. Gilbert bought the bronze, $15,000 worth, himself. He refused to do another design...