Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Allied propagandists were busy at the time, picturing H. R. & I. H. as a debauched "Rat Face," the story of his New Year's card has been 13 years in coming to light...
...central feature of the projected development will be a new home for the Metropolitan Opera, to face Fifth Avenue, between 49th & 50th Streets. On the avenue front, there will be a magnificent esplanade. Viaducts, designed in the futurist style of structural engineering, will take care of automobile traffic on different levels, eliminating the usual traffic jam at the Opera gates on important nights...
...HELP ME! to a row of gallants cringing away from her fat lurches. Another shows a scared young gentleman making a hasty escape from a roadster in which sits a sleek, lascivious wench. The young gentleman cries NO, NO! NOT THAT! A third displays a lady in taxicab whose face expresses explosive frenzy as she shouts at her indolent escort YOU'RE SO KIND TO ME, AND I'M SO TIRED OF IT ALL! Artist Arno painted these scenes in black writing ink with washes of lampblack. His lines are brisk, graceful. They grotesquely exaggerate his figures, deftly...
Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis paid $1,000 in 1897 for a spavined relic of Benjamin Franklin called The Saturday Evening Post. Last week at 5? a copy it sold more than 2,750,000, bearing the face of the patriarch on the cover and the legend, "Two Hundredth Anniversary Number." Editor George Horace Lorimer commented on the occasion to the extent of two columns in the editorial section. Said he: ". . . to assist in the evolution of a finer and loftier civilization, to express our national spirit week by week, as truly and concretely as we can-all these...
...Recent shows with Gershwin music are Lady Be. Good, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Rosalie...