Word: ei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which would seem to recall that "Ei" placard that we chortled over the other day. Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell are proudly responsible. "We are pleased to announce," they blare, "that our popular stews now contain 50 per cent more meat, in addition to many other good vegetables...
...Greek vase from the fifth century B.C., and a fine panel from an Egyptian tomb will be shown together with original works by EI Greco, Pieasso, O'Keefe, and Branciesi, the implication being that there is an underlying formal principle which runs through all abstract works...
...Other paintings of importance in the bequest, not shown here, are the "Portrait of a Lady," attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, and a small canvas of EI Grceo's, "Christ Driving the Money-Changers From the Temples," a favorite subject, of which there are at least nine versions, by the painter or his immediate followers, three others being now in America. There is also a large Flemish tapestry, dating from about...
...Last of the Wood Engravers" is the third of the recent Foundation films. It was produced to preserve and make available for posterity the extraordinary technique of Timothy Cole, last of the great wood engravers. His subject in this presentation is the EI Greco masterpiece, "Fray Feliz Hortensio", in the Boston Museum. The fourth of the productions of the Film Foundation is entitled "The Silversmith", an illustration of the technique of the art of the silversmith. It was produced through the cooperation of A. J. Stone, an outstanding worker in silver in this country...
...prophecy alone did Critic Gushing confine his last week's chatter. In addition he had scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...