Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last 12 years the traditional Senior "Class Day Tree" exercises have been held around the gaunt and rotting stump of the historic "Class Day Tree." This year, however, the class of 1924 will pay its respects only to the memory of the old tree; the tree itself will not be there. It was cut down last fall...
...Rehn Galleries, Manhattan, were exhibited recent paintings by George Bellows, whose Crucifixion (depicting a gaunt, muscular, cumbrous Christ) precipitated violent discussion a month ago (TIME...
...Scotti? This fellow of wisdom, wit and a sardonic smile, lost his customary poise in this outburst. A look of embarrassment and shyness was on his face, which is of that long, rather gaunt cast seen often in Italians. He bowed and stammered. He spoke a few heavily accented words of appreciation to the audience, and then spread out his arms, signifying that words failed...
...piece de resistance for the critics was Bellows' Crucifixion. There, set amid violent lights and shadows, with "portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...
...grow lyrical in praise of the Friends of Music. Not only is their aim a very pretty one, but it is splendidly carried out by their conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. This musician, who also directs the orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera House, is distinctly a great personality. Tall and gaunt, with the characteristic long face and high forehead of a musician, he is a bundle of nervous energy and fire. He is by temperament a scholar, even an austere scholar, whose greatest devotion is unearthing gems out of the dust and debris of music. As an example: He is giving...