Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herter turns a cold and logical eye. Her shrewdest stroke is in showing up the common legend that the Cubists got their program from a famous sentence of Cezanne. The actual sentence: "You must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. . . ." It is not recorded that Cezanne ever in his life referred to the "cube." yet by what Author Herter takes to be a monumental feat of autosuggestion, many writers on art misquoted him to include it, the artist's interest in essential geometry thereby becoming the cliche of a school...
...gets its money's worth for the $2,000,000,000 it spends each year on public education is a matter of perennial dispute between taxpayers and educators. Last week a group of experts, who had just completed the most ambitious inquiry into this question ever made in the U. S., told New York, which spends more than any other State ($277,900,000), that it does not get its money's worth. Their proposals for making New York's school dollars do a better job were broad enough to fit most of the other 47 States...
...Yale ('15) he was editor of the rowdy Record while his classmate Archibald MacLeish conducted the more pontifical Literary Magazine. His Great American Bandwagon (1928) is a whimsical review of U. S. eccentricities, from ukuleles to kewpie dolls. Ever one to enjoy making the best of a bad situation, Mr. Merz likes to recall that he met his wife after hitting her with a golf ball...
...Same day the Munich agreement was signed, auditors began totting up Express sales for the "crisis" month of September, found they had reached an alltime peak of 2,520,205 a day. In calmer October they dropped slightly to 2,507,137. No other newspaper in history has ever averaged above 2,500,000 for even one month. Crowed the Express: ''Peace . . . met the demand...
...surface facts seem impishly simple: backed at first by an elderly Halifax financier, he engineered mergers of banks, utilities, steel and cement companies, collecting ever bigger commissions. His greatest merger, which formed the $37,500,000 Canada Cement Co. Ltd., was almost a Dominion scandal (which Beaverbrook blames on a disappointed rival). But he was already tired of mere moneymaking...