Word: designate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Genesee Depot the Lunts live in a converted chicken house during their vacations, raise choice broccoli, cantaloupe, a wide variety of herbs, vegetables and flowers, swim in the swimming pool that Design for Living paid for, pamper their dachshunds Elsa and Rudolf, indulge in fancy cookery, their mutual hobby. It is the same farm, lovingly elaborated, where Alfred lived as a boy. Natives still call him Bill, a nickname he got from worshipping a boyhood hero, Buffalo Bill...
...strained and snide. Painters like the late George Luks and George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
...scientific approach differs from other approaches in that it demands that action be based upon competent factual information. It is for this reason that research has always formed an important part of the Bureau program. Without accurate knowledge of the functional parts of the problem it is impossible to design sound principles or practices, and this is especially true in dealing with a new problem and one that is growing and changing so rapidly. All good university activities now incorporate research programs as an integral part of the processes of learning as witness public health and business administration among many...
...term last week needed a thorough rugbeating and airing in the minds of U. S. citizens it was "modernism" in architecture and design. A fact long apparent to thoughtful people was that there is often something fake, ill-fitting and hothouse about the designs for public buildings and monuments which graduates of great architectural schools turn out every year. Also apparent was the fact that there is something faddish and affected or else starved and forbidding about many examples of so-called "functional" design. After the fine economies of Colonial building disappeared in the U. S. during the 19th Century...
...Marshall Field, given outright last year to the Chicago Association of Arts & Industries by Marshall Field III. The association, headed by grey-haired President Edward H. Powell of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., and endowed a few years ago by midwest business bluebloods, gave its support to the School of Industrial Design at the Chicago Art Institute until last year it decided to use its $262,000 fund to establish a more ambitious school...