Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tracing his first landscapes on a piece of gauze stretched across the window frame of a tent. But potential art buyers of his time were bored by landscapes: they liked only two kinds of art: portraits and historical paintings. Guy died several years before the romantic, nature-worshiping era set in. Then, slowly at first and with literary prodding from Thoreau, William Cullen Bryant, Emerson and James Fenimore Cooper, Americans began to look at their own landscape with pride and respect...
...mettlesomeness (as both producer and director) that acted like ozone, even if at times they were only shots of dope. In addition to being good shows, Broadway and The Front Page set a trend in colorful, hard-hitting entertainment; they caught the garish, profane, melodramatic spirit of an era...
...era ended- in September 1929- Harris "retired." But this characteristic Harris gesture fooled nobody; after a trip abroad and a tumble in Wall Street he was once more aswirl with ideas. The next few years brought more kudos than cash-and the kudos more for revivals (Uncle Vanya, The Inspector General, A Doll's House} than for exciting new productions...
...cardinals would scarcely have been more law-abiding or (for the moment) more conservative. The first annual congress of France's most important Resistance group smoothly lock-stepped down the Communist Party's proGovernment, law-&-order line. Cried Communist Pierre Villon, F.N. secretary general: "The Tommy-gun era...
...Pendergast, 71, most notorious political boss of the century; of heart disease; in Kansas City. Son of a teamster, old "TJ." built a small Democratic ward machine in Kansas City's Italian section into a powerful and corrupt political juggernaut. He ruled Kansas City in its bawdiest, gaudiest era, hired ghost voters by the thousands, bet millions on the ponies, hand-picked Governors and Senators, started Vice President Harry Truman up the political ladder. Heavy-set and heavy-jowled, he was the incarnation of the cartoonists' political boss-especially when he wore...