Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant any such thing. But, as often happens with Oriental denials, it was obvious that His Excellency was splitting a hair. He claimed to have meant: "Great Britain and the United States will eventually understand our policy. If, however, the United States and Great Britain should fail to understand and should attempt forcibly to swerve our course, then Japan would be forced to fight...
...huge panorama painted for the Indiana building at the Century of Progress Fair, is now stored in an Indianapolis warehouse because the State lacks a suitable place to exhibit it. All three have a nervous electric quality which is peculiarly Benton's and which his pupils often try but fail to imitate. Painted from recognizable observations, all three portray such typical Americana as revivalists, bootleggers, stevedores, politicians, soda clerks...
Curry's art is simple and dramatic. Whether he likes it or not no Kansan who has looked at his State or been to a circus can fail to recognize the authenticity of Curry's subjects. Latest Curry is a two-panel mural for the Westport High School. In Comedy Artist Curry has included himself and his wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene...
Such a choice is lamentable and if carried out will ultimately fail to solve the problem and probably complicate an already difficult task of providing commuters with a satisfactory center for social inter-course and a common meeting ground. The gymnasium is a dreary dilapidated building and designed for athletic purposes. The cost of renovating it would be no small sum. Even if a large majority of the commuters were willing to contribute ten dollars each for that purpose it is unlikely that a large enough amount could be collected to make the necessary alterations. That some arrangements for commuters...
...prevent any miscarriage of justice in awarding the "Hand Painted" to the "Superman of 1934"?don't fail to first confer with one Dizzy (but not dizzard) Dean...