Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...umbrella which can be strapped to the head, leaving both hands free...
...poet; of heart disease; in Roquebrune, France. A symbolist poet known to few in his youth, a leader of the Irish literary renaissance and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in his early maturity, an Irish nationalist in his middle years, Yeats also became a Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which schoolchildren now memorize...
...sleep over what his less successful rivals think of him. Looking like a Daily Worker caricature of a capitalist, he sits behind an enormous French walnut desk in Manhattan's Steinway Building, continuously smoking big Havana cigars. Says he: "Managers are employes of artists. An artist is perfectly free to hire any manager he wants." But when A. G. M. A. representatives last month wanted to look at Employe Judson's books (on the theory that the employer has a right to know how the business is going), Employe Judson refused pointblank...
...last two years, large, free-speaking Hilaire Hiler has been in San Francisco, working mostly on the Aquatic Park murals. Those in the central lounge he designed and mainly executed himself. Their subject is the submerged continents of Mu and Atlantis in the green depths of the sea. Swimming and floating everywhere are large, brilliantly colored fish, mythical sea creatures, and tremendously enlarged microorganisms symbolizing the oceanic origin of life. Shafts of sunlight falling through the water work sea changes of color...
Last week at pastoral Oconomowoc, 33 miles west of Milwaukee, 42 of the fastest skaters in the U. S. whizzed around Fowler Lake. The first day 50 Oconomowocians watched them. The second day only 25 showed up. The rest of the week, even though it was free and only a stone's throw from the centre of town, the spectacle attracted fewer and fewer onlookers...