Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thereafter under Gustavus T. Kirby, was a far more pretentious organization. Its evening auction sales of paintings and oriental knickknacks, held at Chickering Hall, were social diversions. Manhattan art patrons would fill themselves with quail and chilled champagne, call for their broughams, and drive through the streets, quite quiet except for the soft drumming of horses' hoofs, to the auction room. The men would smoke long cigars during the sale and bid furiously because it was good fun and a Wall Street habit...
...famed U. S. architect, last week addressed the American Club: "The arts of the world are suffering an eclipse," said Architect Cram. "Creative music has almost ceased. Painting has fallen back and sculpture is in almost the same condition." Soon Architect Cram qualified this lugubrious assertion: "All the arts except American architecture have fallen back. The revival of American architecture since 1880 is one of the most remarkable manifestations of modern history...
...Nowhere in Europe is ecclesiastical architecture expressing definite, concrete religion. Gothic is the perfect voicing of this, and nowhere is it to be found in modern work except in the United States...
...subscribers in all states except Delaware, South Carolina, Vermont. Who knows but what it may some day become the Atlantic Monthly of the prairies, oil fields and canyons? It was several years in the planning; the first two issues (January, February) have appeared on schedule...
...Except for 1923, when eight billion square yards of cotton products were manufactured in the U. S. (two billion more than any year before or since), New England textile rajahs have sat on uneasy thrones. In 1924 many were forced to cut employees' wages 10%. In recent months, barely noticed amid prosperity literature, they have again made cuts. The Pepperell Manufacturing Co. (sheets & pillow cases) of Biddeford, Me., started it early in December with a 10% wage decrease. Quickly followed the Bates and Andrescoggin mills of Lewiston, Me,, and the Edwards mill of Augusta. Then the Amoskeag...