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Word: exhibitioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Communist Party gave a remarkable exhibition of hauteur. Like the aristocratic Southern lady who sneered "Newspaper talk" when told that the Titanic had gone down, Party members have steadily sniffed when evidence offered at Washington charged Communists with espionage, treason, counterfeiting, slugging, murder, double-dealing, graft, wrecking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Dies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

For 20 years Manhattan's most persistent exhibition-goer was a little old gentleman with a beard, a beady eye and baggy trousers. Standing before a painting, preferably a high-priced one, he would mutter. "Pffft! Such crude pigments! My, such a stencil technique-brr-let me get away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Mahatma | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week Louis Eilshemius was again hailed as "the greatest living master"-this time by somebody else.* In three of Manhattan's swank 57th Street galleries- Kleemann, Boyer, Valentine, he was being given simultaneous one-man shows. Another Eilshemius exhibition was touring the Pacific Coast; a fifth was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Mahatma | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

It has been many a day since the Mahatma has gone to an exhibition. At 75, he is a cripple confined to his second-story bedroom in a gloomy, gaslit brownstone house on 57th Street. Eilshemius persists in sitting with his back to the window, his face turned away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Mahatma | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Few top-notch cow pokes miss the Broadway roundup. With luck one man can win $4,000 at the Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Cowboys | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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