Word: forwarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davidson's statue shows the influence of "The Covered Wagon" motif and hence will no doubt be popular in the balloting. His tall spare woman leans forward as she scrutinizes the prairie horizon for her Dan'l, who is probably delayed during a storm at Faro Pete's Saloon. The character might well be stolen from Fannie Hurst. She is not so vivid as his famed "Call To Arms" figure which everyone remembers as the woman with her feet planted flat, her arms upraised, mouth wide in battle call to France. Mr. Davidson, born and reared...
...Hermon Atkins MacNeil, who was born in Massachusetts, has molded his frontierswoman with all the solidity and heavy figure of a muscular St. Gauden's French peasant. She strides forward with breasts uptilted, an ax in her hand, a babe on her hip. It is apparent that she is about to hew something. She won place in the balloting in Manhattan...
Should two onetime Presidents of the U. S. undertake to manage the government of a city, that city might well expect to get good government. Similarly Tampa, Fla., looked forward last week to having a model newspaper. The local Tribune was sold by the syndicate of Tampa businessmen that had owned it since 1925, to President John Stewart Bryan of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and his predecessor in that office, S. Emory Thomason. Old friends, the new partners paid a booming price for their property-$900,000-and assumed all liabilities. They said they believed in Tampa, believed...
Thoughtful commentators like Lord Bryce are no longer read ("too longwinded"). Brilliant specialists like Thomas Beer are chuckled over, then dismissed as satirists ("too clever"). Lewis Mumford steps forward, more penetrating than a Van Wyck Brooks, more coherent than a Ralph Adams Cram, far more mature, mannerly and historical than any Mencken, with a book* that is badly needed. He succinctly, brilliantly yet mellowly, summarizes U. S. culture to date...
...March on!" (Or more probably: "Forward. MARCH...