Word: fetishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election on a gold-standard, sound-money platform. At Des Moines he shocked his followers by declaring that a few months prior, the U. S. had been within two weeks of being forced off gold. To the Republicans the gold standard and "hard money" became a political fetish with which to frighten the electorate. But the electorate refused to be frightened and the Republicans lost the Presidency. Last January in the Senate inflationists mustered 18 votes for the Bryanesque 16-to-1 free coinage of silver, most discredited of the quantitative money proposals, and their drive seemed definitely halted (TIME...
Along the Panama coast he left his impress. There still is a Caledonia Bay and a Puerto Escocés. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child. When the San Blas and Choco medicine men want to carve a really imposing fetish on a medicine cane, they give long-nosed William Paterson a waistcoat, shirt, necktie, collar, buttons, striped trousers, paint his coat black or green...
...Connecticut. Too slow for the ducks, one eagle dives at them, drives them down to the water, then the other dives, then the first, and so on for perhaps 15 minutes until the ducks are exhausted, can be caught. In all his paintings, Rex Brasher has made a fetish of getting right the living color of feet, beak and the soft part around the eyes, rarely shown accurately. He spent three days getting a sketch of the comparatively common grasshopper sparrow, a hard-running, covert-loving bird. Once he lay for hours in icy water in Shinnecock Bay to catch...
...Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated fresh air and getting up before noon, he plays all games, though poorly...
Control of Columbia was lately bought by Grigsby-Grunow, devout worshippers of the mass production fetish. A year ago Columbia was cast out of British Columbia Graphophone Co. when that company merged with Gramophone Co., Ltd., subsidiary of RCA-Victor Co. to form Electric & Musical Industries...