Word: gimcracks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather wonderful show. Visitors could forgive a dozen stilted scenes of the chase for a curio such as Tregonwell Frampton Arrested by a Bea dle, or The Ancient Ceremony of Cheese-rolling; and could pass pleasant minutes in contemplation of George Stubbs's beautifully painted study of Gimcrack (see cut), a magnificent grey horse of the 1760s, or of Marshall's John ("Gentle man") Jackson, a straight, first-rate study of the prime pugilist of the Regency...
Like a Tornado. The wartime U.S.A. that Dos Passes saw on his trip was unaware of its own achievements. In Port land, Me., the business district looked as if a tornado had struck it. "Everywhere litter and trash, small gimcrack stores, small unswept lunchrooms. . . . There were signs and cigaret ads instead of goods in the shop windows. The shipyard workers lived in half-slums, in trailer camps, in rows of prefabricated dwellings. When the shifts changed, the dense black crowd poured out through the gates, their faces gray and yellowish, their visored caps pulled over their foreheads, their thick clothes...
Thirty-one years ago this week, on July 25, 1909, a speck low in the air over the English Channel approached the Dover chalk cliffs from the French shore. Larger & larger it grew until watchers on the British side could clearly distinguish a man steering a gimcrack monoplane. He landed safely, and the British rushed to join the world in congratulating Aeronaut Louis Bleriot upon passing one of aviation's epochal milestones...