Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loan show of the Contemporary Art Society in Colnaghi's, Bond St., London, the Prime Minister of England opened an exhibition of modernist French painting. Represented were Braque, Perain, Dufresne, Dufy, Flandrin, Friez, Marchand, Matisse, Picasso, Segonzac, Utrillo, Bonnard. The Prime Minister seemed quite familiar with such names and quite at home in the midst of Contemporary Art. "He proceeded to state, without false gusto, a few simple truths about Art, pointing out that Art, like Nature, never dies, that the old masters of today were once contemporaries, a fact too frequently forgotten by their exclusive worshippers, that...
Babbitt. The great American legion that calls George Follansbee Babbitt friend will hardly recognize his familiar figure as a skeleton, stripped of most of the flesh and blood wherewith Sinclair Lewis endowed him, strung about with a few chunks of cinematic laughter-bait, dangled rakishly by Director Beaumont inside the standard triangle frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought...
...President named 12 of the 28 men who will constitute the Board of Tax Appeals, created by the new Income Tax Law. Seven were lawyers, accountants, tax experts from private life. Five, all lawyers, were appointed from the Internal Revenue Bureau, where they have been familiar with the kind of work required of the new Board...
Natives of Cherbourg, France, are accustomed to seeing a towering ocean liner anchor off their low-lying shore. Familiar to them are the fussy tenders that cuddle under the great ship's flanks to receive issuing streams of scurrying...
...Locked Door. The time-honored thought is again illustrated in this comedy that what is freely given is just as freely thrown away. The framework of society is represented in other familiar patterns here, but it has all been freshened up with a new lick of paint. It is rather surprising to find that so much material that has seen service before is still worthy to be taken from the lumber room...