Word: everly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first is that from his early days Picasso has hated to let any of his pictures go. "No painting is ever finished" is one of his gloomy sayings, and it is true that his studio and his chateau are jammed full of canvases which he will not sell. Even so, Dealers Rosenberg, et al., have occasionally been so hard put to it to keep from being flooded with Picassos that a wit once suggested, as a solution, a tie-up with the Citroen (Ford of France) Motor Company: "A Picasso with every Citroen...
...fall due, in 1967, the Cincinnati subway will have cost $19,000,000. It has never carried a passenger. Once during a bitter Depression winter, a score of shivering hoboes holed up in one of its diggings, until they were driven out by the police. But no tracks were ever laid in its 2.6 miles of underground or 13.9 miles of overground right...
...Cincinnati's subway is ever to be used, it must build a loop through the Basin from its present downtown terminus. This would cost another $6,000,000, and the whole project would be handed to the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. for operation of its cars. The transaction would be without rent, which the company is nable to pay. Face to face with this apparently insoluble situation, a group of leading Cincinnatians resolved last week that something must be done about the city's hole-in-the-ground. Last week they met at the Sinton Hotel, organized...
What they witnessed was perhaps the most beautiful performance of ski jumping ever seen in the U. S. Slanting through the air, bending forward obliquely from his ankles, Reidar Andersen outjumped all his rivals (193 ft., 197 ft.), so impressed the judges that he was awarded 234.45 points, just 5.55 short of the highest score possible in a tournament...
Next to questions about weather and health, the most often-asked news-question in the U. S. is "How's Business?" Ever since business has been called business, men have sought an inclusive answer to that question-and an answer exclusive of wishful (or fearful) opinion...