Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustrator for, among other things, the poems of Scott and Byron. When a building in Oxford Street burned down, he was up early to sketch the smoking ruins; when Nelson's flagship, the Victory, returned from the Battle of Trafalgar, he went down to Sheerness to go aboard and make sketches...
...pupil, Grosser entered Harvard in 1920 with the highest-in-the-U. S. college entrance marks in mathematics and Greek. Of Art he was more innocent than the youngest dauber in a modern progressive school. In 1922, when he was a restless sophomore, a leering classmate urged him to go to an art class in South Boston, because there he might see "real naked women and it only costs a quarter." Grosser went and returned breathless, not because of the model (that night it was a shabby old man) but because he drew better than anyone in the class...
...Chicago's lively Art Institute, juvenile howls go up at little Miss Jewett's dainty vocabulary ("delightful, fascinating, exquisite"), her poetic prose: "In our ears the hurricane roars and silence knows us not. Out of confusion do we come and into confusion do we go. . . . Thus speaks the modern-he who has lost faith in the good, the beautiful, the true." But dissent remained private until, fortnight ago, Critic Jewett dismissed the paintings in the Art Institute's annual student show as of 'comic valentine persuasion...
...rompers, silk stockings and a Victorian, plumed hat. Young Daniel Catton Rich, director of the institute, ran over to plead with them to disperse, and so did popular Dean Norman Rice. But suddenly four ringleaders in black hoods hoisted the effigy to their shoulders, shouted "Let's go!" About half the crowd followed, chanting lugubriously, carrying signs which read: NERVOUS HYSTERIA IS NOT ART CRITICISM; SEND E. JEWETT TO ART SCHOOL; JEWETT IS 70 YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES; CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE, MEDIEVAL ART CRITICISM BY ELEANOR...
Bright & early on her 18th birthday, starry-eyed Post-Debutante Brenda Diana Duff Frazier hopped out of bed, answered the telephone, told newsmen: "It's going to be a very quiet day. I'll probably lunch with mummy (Mrs. Frederic Watriss)*and go to the theatre with my grandmother, Lady Williams-Taylor, but that's all. I haven't decided yet what I'll wear." She was still undecided at noon when a Postal Telegraph songster arrived with flowers and caroled Happy Birthday...