Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story: Designers last week exhibited in Manhattan (at the Art Centre show) silk dress fabric taking as motifs jazz bands, Fifth Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners...
...usual with the more pretentious books published by Brentano's, "Julius Caesar" is an excellent piece of bookmaking. The illustrations by W.D. White should also be mentioned, especially the graphic one showing the murder of Caesar...
...York Evening Graphic, juicy gum-chewers' sheetlet, recently offered $50,000 in a cinema title contest. Certain aspects of the replies prompted them to demand an inquiry. Chief Assistant U. S District Attorney G. J. Mintzer inquired; unearthed a "puzzle trust...
Approximately $25,000 is constantly before the public as various prize and puzzle baits. To collect this wealth, the "puzzle trust" operates an information system, publishes a paper (for professionals) filled with inside facts, percentages, tips, systems, devices. To win the Graphic contest, they narrowed 6,000 possible titles down to four score. From these 80, their clients could make their various combinatioons; could submit them through the 50-odd names of "friends" which form a part of their professional equipment...
...ethics of Jesus are the fragmentary ethics of a defeated intellect, the exhortation of a noble man perplexed by the concrete discordance of a 'pain-economy'--to borrow Professor Patten's graphic phrase...