Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long separated from his wife, now lives in the house. The other brothers arrive early in the morning. Work begins with pointing-machines, chisels, mallets, electric drills and the casting foundry. As many as 100 men are sometimes employed. In old clothes and square paper caps, the five brothers hammer and laugh, shout and sing arias from opera. At noon Attilio or a "Tuscan gentlewoman" named Clementina cooks the roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks the Vesuvian wine and the five & guests sit down for a noisy, two-hour meal. Horatio usually washes the dishes afterward. All talk well, laugh easily...
Great writers and musicians have abounded in Russia but there never was a first-rate Russian painter or sculptor. Out of the second-rate last week Manhattan's Hammer Galleries assembled a collection of 86 canvases entitled "One Hundred and Fifty Years of Russian Painting...
...Hammer Galleries boasts as its emblem the double-eagle of Imperial Russia and deals exclusively with the leftovers of the Tsarist aristocracy. It was founded by a young U. S. doctor named Armand Hammer who was so sympathetic with the Soviet experiment that he spent nine years in the U. S. S. R. Foundation of the Hammer fortune was laid by Armand Hammer's father who made a great deal of money after the War selling medical supplies to the Soviets. Armand Hammer manufactured lead pencils in Moscow, traded U. S. wheat for furs and caviar, carried...
...until comparatively recent times did such painters as the late Léon Bakst and goat-bearded, mystic Nicolas Constantinovich Roerich attempt to start a really Russian school of painting, based on Russia's Byzantine iconographers. There were few examples of this at the Hammer Galleries. The sort of pictures that the Tsars and their friends liked were skillful paraphrases of British and French 19th Century portraits, sentimental landscapes, super-magazine illustrations. On view were five seascapes by Ivan Aivazovsky, a marine painter so beloved by Grand Dukes that they used to buy his pictures by the square inch...
...Varon; Hume Dow; A. C. Doyle; Aldrich Durant, Jr.; J. R. Egan; W. A. Evans; Thomas Fuller; H. L. Furse; R. I. Gale; T. F. Geraghty; John Gilroy; P. M. Glendinning; W. T. Glendinning; Prentiss Godfrey; G. H. Gregg; D. R. Griffin; H. B. Grisweld; A. H. Hall; Leonard Hammer; J. G. Harder; John Hay; Bernard Helfat; R. A. Herzberg; S. V. Kean; H. S. Kernan; Robert Kernan; D. B. Kitchel; E. B. Knowlton; Norman Lanz; J. N. Latorraca; Ralph Lawson; Maurice Lazarus; B. G. Leighton; G. S. Lewis; A. H. Litt; F. M. Ludden; Kenneth MacLeish; D. N. McKay...