Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Giuliano dei Medici. The sculptor has portrayed Lorenzo's brother as the victor in the great Tournament of 1475, the here of Politian's Stanze rejoicing in his youth and virile beauty. The tilt of the noble head, the pride of race stamped on the curling lips and firm-set jaw make this not only the portrait of a Medici but of the whole class of cultured despots. The delicate handling of the armor contrasts with and accentuates the direct, almost impressionistic modelling of the head. Versatility, even in an age of giants, is always amazing, and so it seems...
What a contrast there is between this firm-fleshed, bouncing gamin and the delicate, well brought-up little boy by Desidevaerio. The charm of this master's busts of children is almost too evanescent a thing to describe in words. One will want to look at this little head from every angle to enjoy the play of light on the wonderfully soft texture of the marble, to see how well the sculptor has caught the ever-changing expression, mischievous and yet touched with sadness, that animates the face of youth. Another piece by Desiderio, a relief of the Madonna...
...oldest and best known Italian vermouth houses is the firm of Martini & Rossi. It was established in 1835 in Turin as Martini, Sola & Co. The enterprising Rossis entered the firm in the '60s; the last of the original Martinis withdrew from the company nearly 40 years ago. President of the company is white-haired Count Ernesto Rossi. His nephew, a director of the company, is sleek young Count Teofilo Rossi who was sliding down hills at Lake Placid last week as captain of the Italian Olympic bobsled team...
Several years ago Martini & Rossi, who used to have a virtual monopoly of the export trade in Italian vermouth, received violent competition from the enterprising younger firm of Cinzano. They plastered the billboards and fences of France and Italy with Cinzano posters, cut deep into Martini profits...
Henry G. Dalton, a partner in Pickands, Mather & Co., are producers and ship-building firm in Cleveland, was made chairman of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., succeeding 77-year-old James Anson Campbell whose health was broken in the titanic effort to merge Youngstown with Bethlehem. Mr. Campbell will assume a title new to finance: Chairman Emeritus...