Word: fan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion that "the best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages ... or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes was Mr. Holton, self-taught authority on mass insanity, who went crazy...
Last week a letter appeared in the New York Post from Paul Manship, who is designing the most prominent sculpture at the Fair, recalling that "even Chicago counterbalanced its fan dancer with a world-famous art exhibit" (at the Art Institute, a mile away from the fair grounds), and boldly asking his clients: "Are exhibitions at the Fair to be limited to products that carry a price tag? ... Is this to be a World's Fair worthy of New York, or another glorified Coney Island...
...Fan Sirs...
...completed structure lies under 20 feet of silt, 75 feet below the Hudson's surface. It is just over 1½ miles long, ceilinged in glass tile, employed 1,300 WPA workers at an average $1 per hour, is fitted on the Manhattan side with approaches which fan into half-a-dozen little feeder streets. Authorized fortnight ago was construction of a cross-town vehicular tunnel which will connect the Lincoln Tunnel to the abuilding Queens Midtown Tunnel, another pair of tubes under the East River to the Borough of Queens. These additional arteries will channel through traffic from...
...showmanship which has put Mr. Marshall's glittering laundry depots all over town, he organized a 55-piece band which he dressed like Indians. He bustled around to his influential friends in Washington and persuaded them to attend games. Vice President Garner became a constant patron and fan of Fellow-Texan Baugh. Washingtonians enthusiastically pack-jammed Griffith Stadium every Sunday the Redskins were at home. Owner Marshall's $85,000 deficit turned into a prospective $20,000 profit...