Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hired to dig and sketch abstract geometry at Chichén-Itzà, Chariot so impressed the Carnegie archeologists that he was retained for two years, entrusted with writing the expedition's report on Maya art. Meanwhile, Chariot's own work drifted away from the furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated...
Stand-In (Walter Wanger). "You wouldn't want a star to endure the heat of the lights while they set the cameras and microphones, would you? So they dig up a gal ... to stand in for the star while all this torture goes on. . . . When everything's set the star, cool and immaculate, puts her dainty little feet in the chalkmarks. The standin, worn and wilted, fades out of the picture...
...strike binds everybody in the shop to take up the dispute of somebody they are not at all interested in, with the result that union officials have to hastily dig up enough grievances for everybody. ... It also is dangerous to the union because the worker is generally hard-headed enough to size up the dispute from his own standpoint and objects to losing time if he gains nothing thereby. . . The economic weapon, which in this case is placed in the hands of an individual wholly incapable of even figuring the extent of its magnitude or the possible result...
...Sharpest dig at Walter Lippmann was made by Mabel Dodge Luhan, whose Manhattan salon Lippmann frequented as a young man: "Walter is never, never going to lose an eye in a fight. He might lose his glow, but he will never lose...
...suffered the bombardments with the people they show. They were under fire with the soldiers, frequently resorting to a hand camera so that they could get closer to the action. Opening shots are in Fuentidueña and the bare fields surrounding the village. The townsfolk go out to dig irrigation ditches, denied them by the old regime, so they can raise food for the defenders of Madrid. The camera moves from the village to Madrid, to the front, to an attack on a bridge, back to the town. University City, rising raggedly above the cellars where insurgents are huddled...