Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid for, swart, swashbuckling little Missourian Thomas Benton wrote the university a bread-&-butter letter. He thanked the building's architects for the "great gilded spittoons which they have placed to hide as much of the paintings as possible," since "spittoons of Indiana's tobacco-chewing era are more appropriate to my murals, even when they hide them, than Greco-Roman statues or Mayan reliefs...
...era of Marxist revolutionary murals on which Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros rode to fame has pretty well petered out today, but the art of easel painting is running full blast. A flourishing group of some 40 able painters, including Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus Guerrero Galvan and Federico Cantu, are beginning to be known in the U. S. Among the new ones touted by Critic Helm are Antonio Ruiz, who paints street scenes in a Covarrubias-like style, and 21-year-old Guillermo Meza, who took up painting be cause he didn't have...
...When I consider her as a person," wrote Novelist James Branch Cabell of his friend, Ellen Glasgow, "she arouses in me a dark suspicion." Cabell's suspicion is that Ellen Glasgow "is a gentlewoman as well as a genius in an era unfavorable to either. . . ." Ellen Glasgow has aroused even darker suspicions among U.S. readers. They have suspected that she is dull or highbrow, and have translated their suspicions into a considerable lack of interest. Some who have read her Barren Ground, without reading They Stooped to Folly, consider her a too stern daughter of the voice...
...Tobacco Road," the book, was the "Grapes of Wrath" of the Hoover era. Its coarse characters, crude action, and real-to-life plot made it a sociology text as well as a novel. It was a chunky, earthy portrayal of actual conditions on Georgia tenant farms by a writer whose pen had the realistic flair of Rembrandt's paintbrush. Adapted for the stage in 1933 "Tobacco Road" broke all records for longevity and attendance. Its dialogue was delivered not only with Georgia drawl but also with Georgia poor-white, obscene explicitness. The pathetic humor of the play prodded the social...
...number of wins, six fewer ties, six more losses. Never before had any team won three titles in a row. Starting the season sluggishly, the Bruins suddenly clicked, went 23 games without a defeat, an all-time record. Chortled Manager Art Ross: "My gang would be great in any era...