Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernest Prostor's "The Back Bedroom." You can only see a corner of the bedroom. A girl with a primitive face and a fine supple body leans over the back of a chair. The skin has texture; the pose understanding; but over it all, the simplicity, the strong drive of the light into the picture, is something too glib, a derived accent. A jury of critics would have chosen it; the Carnegie's jury of painters gave it only an honorable mention, as they gave Antoine Faistauer's exceedingly competent "Old Village, Menton" and John Carroll...
...imported as France has not enough coal as it is. In terms of coldest economy, the logical way for France to deal with her able son's discovery seemed to be to divulge it to one of the biggest coal-producing nations-the U. S., China, Germany-thus drive down the price of natural petroleum and import that as before...
...Country Club, L. I., a well-hit golf ball zoomed, struck unconscious one Edward Brown, 12, who was following his father's party around the course. Frantic, Dr. Brown carried his son to the street, was heartened by the offer of transportation from Building Commissioner John W. Moore, driving by at the moment. Mr. Moore drove a few minutes, stopped the car, got out, said: "I'm too nervous to drive. Take the car and go on." From the curb, he watched Dr. Brown drive off, collapsed, died...
...long do you allow for a 200-mile automobile drive? Perhaps, if you are touring, you allow a day-a late start, a leisurely lunch somewhere along the road, an arrival about dusk. If, on the other hand, you happened to be one Harry Hartz of Los Angeles, you would allow 1 hour, 37 minutes, 21.25 seconds; this speed, a new world's record, he made last week at Salem...
...than last year, he is not yet viewed with alarm by Broadway's first 20 ranking actors. As family chauffeur, Wade Rawlins (Mr. Tilden) keeps tabs on father's, brother's, sister's peccadillos, so that at the most embarrassing moment he is able to drive off the blackmailers who threaten the socially unstable new-rich. Later he blossoms forth a most satisfactory candidate for the daughter's hand, especially since he is not of such lowly station as one might have been led to believe...