Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Objection to any work of art because it shows a nude body is an outworn gag, but still good for newspaper copy. Last week Executive Director Harris De Haven Connick of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, strenuously made that objection to four pieces of Exposition sculpture. No publicity seeker, forthright Mr. Connick objected to other pieces as artistically inadequate, in which he was at least partially right...
...land of Neverpresent there lived a goodly people, with herds of cattle, flocks of sheep and goats, and sties full of fat swine. Their streets were all paved with cobblestones, and each house had a white gate and was placed at least three feet from the next house. The soil rewarded the farmers' toil with rich crops; smoke poured from the chimneys of the factories all day and sometimes far into the night; stores, hospitals, and the rocket trucks ran with a maximum of efficient quiet...
...Allison, according to his official report, was escorted by Japanese gendarmes. They advised Secretary Allison and Mr. Riggs not to enter a building into which they had agreed to take the Chinese woman so that she might point out the rapists. Then they pushed her roughly through the gate, and as Messrs Allison & Riggs impulsively moved to follow, a Japanese sentry shouted in English "Back! Back...
...backed up slowly," cabled Third Secretary Allison in his report, "but before I had time to get out of the gate he slapped me across the face and then turned and did the same to Mr. Riggs...
...Madigan to coach its football teams, St. Mary's began an era of prosperity that culminated when it moved, 700 students strong, into a $1,500,000 plant in the Moraga Valley. But last summer, despite Slip Madigan and its football team (whose expenses ate up all the gate receipts), St. Mary's was sold at auction for $411,150 to a committee of bondholders for default of payments on $1,370,500 in outstanding bonds (TIME, Aug. 2). That ended its fourth life, but St. Mary's still had some left. Four months ago another...