Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This correlation of the elements that make a mature art belongs in the section meetings, but here the time is spent on quizzes and reviews. The interested and intelligent cannot express their ideas while the instructor is rehearsing fundamentals to the lazy and inept. Creative thinking and personal reactions are stifled in the bud, and useless repetition shuts off what might be enjoyable general discussion...
This, if anything, increased the boom, and London Stock Exchange gigolos-the well-born young Englishmen with wealthy women friends who get 50% commission on orders they put in the way of regular brokers-were chided by the financial editor of Lord Beaverbrook's patriotic Daily Express. Wrote he: "I hear that the 'half commission boys' in the West End are speculating in aircraft shares on behalf of their clients, the ladies. This is always a bad sign...
...returned at length to Denver, won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the artistic and historic background of the West, and was given his first one-man show by the Denver Junior League. With his brother Vaughan, Artist Mechau is at present working on an illustrated history of the Pony Express. Frank Mechau hates to leave the house while working. "For the past four months," said he, "I never made a journey beyond the garbage...
...death of George V, the ascension of Edward VIII. Alan Cameron is not only Cavalcade's editor but half its staff. The other half is Publisher William James Brittain, a rising Fleet Streeter who was once assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Sunday Express. Impartial observers thought that on merit Brittain's Cavalcade would outlast Korda's News Review. But Publisher Korda was confident that he would be publishing both sheets within three months...
...Having posed in Santa Claus costume, Capt. Musick took off with the first load of Pacific air express. After 700 miles he met a storm. True to his traditional caution, he turned about, returned to San Francisco...