Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everybody. Seldom has such art been concentrated so deliberately with-in four walls as in an anti-war exhibition at Paris' Galerie Billiet last fortnight, called L'Art Cruel. The usual fate of such intentions has seldom been illustrated better than in the shallow frissons and Grand Guignol giggles with which swank Parisians responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling...
...London last week everyone was complaining "the sun has not been out since before Christmas." In Venice thermometers crawled down below freezing, stayed there for four consecutive days, while the Grand Canal froze solid. One day it cost $20,000 to clear the snow from Berlin's streets, a rare event, for special gangs of street sweepers rarely have to be employed in the German capital. But while storms and blizzards raged over all Europe last week, the greatest weather-made sensation broke on the Black...
Genius. After 1915, Wright's rebirth in architecture took the form of creative audacity on a grand scale. Commissioned in 1916 to build the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, he produced one of the marvels of modern construction. A vast, low building on a symmetrical plan, it was Wright's first ambitious use of the cantilever principle, which allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship...
...Camera fans, polish up your lenses-and you may win a FREE TRIP TO HOLLYWOOD with ALL EXPENSES PAID WHILE THERE!" Whoever submits the best picture of Cecil B. DcMille, Hollywood producer, taken during his visit here next Tuesday, will be given this GRAND PRIZE by the Boston Sunday Advertiser, a local publication...
...many a scientific memoir, U. S. readers got their first intimate glimpse of him last week, when Professor Leslie A. White edited a 174-page, paperbound volume of extracts from a journal that Morgan kept on a European journey in 1870-71. A good introduction, it traces the grand tour he took with his wife & son to Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin and Paris. It shows him as a good-natured, hard-headed patriot, as provincial as General Grant, gawking at every cathedral, castle, museum and picture gallery. But it shows him also as a distinguished scientist, meeting Charles Darwin and Thomas...