Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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He became an impresario of professional tennis in 1928 when he imported Czechoslovakian Karel Kozeluh for an exhibition tour. In 1931 he recruited Francis T. Hunter after that wealthy New Yorker had dropped some $3,000,000 in the stockmarket. That year Tilden also turned professional. Last year in partnership...
The pale young people who drink sherry at little tables and decide the latest vogues in art were all finished with surrealism years ago. Surrealism may be described as painting the facts of dreams. Example: A little man with a head on which cabbages grow, carrying a huge spoon across...
"I used to balance two broiled lamb chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat...while the sun was setting, I was...able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York...
The first Dali canvas to attract general U.S. attention was shown at last summer's Century of Progress Exhibition under its official title, The Persistence of Memory. All Chicago knew it as "The Wet Watches." (see cut, p. 44). In the foreground were four great watches. One dripped over...
A distinguished institution with the moldy patina of an old meerschaum pipe is the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Each year it selects one of its members for special glorification. Being thus glorified last week was one of the Academy's most distinguished members, Charles Dana Gibson. On the...