Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because he is president of the National Academy of Design, successful Artist Jonas Lie thought it would be diplomatic to send a landscape, priced at $2,500. So that was also on hand with more than 1 ,000 other exhibits by more than 400 exhibitors, when the Society of Independent Artists ("No Jury, No Prizes") opened its doors for its 21st annual show. In 1917 when Artist John Sloan and a few friends founded the Independents' Show it filled a vital need. The National Academy was neolithic in its conservatism, few dealers would handle the men who were attempting...
...three months via Western Union 50,000 copies to 50,000 people with annual incomes of $7,500 or more. After the three months are up, Publisher Logan will try another 50,000, then another. Not only does he expect that advertisers will look with favor on this hand-picked slice of kid glove circulation, but he thinks that he will pick up some 5,000 permanent readers from each free list. His goal: 250,000 readers. "The present so-called 'class' magazines with small circulations are licked," says...
...general order as "putting on the heat." Although California Packing was only trying to stay within the law with a policy of one-price-to-all, A. & P. clerks made strenuous efforts to substitute other brands for Del Monte, buying was cut to a hand-to-mouth basis to annoy California Packing as much as possible, and orders were placed through brokers so that California Packing had to pay a 4% commission anyway. 'This is not spite," said Grocer Parr. "This is business...
...just a highbrow writer but perhaps a great one. She is certainly the foremost woman author of her day. Her books are addressed not to a literary clique but to the Intelligent Common Reader. And the address is written in such a fine and flowing hand that even when it is illegible the hopeful addressee can find some profitable pleasure in puzzling over it. Even her obscurer books have something about them that attracts popular attention, for more than most stylists, she writes about the common gist of things...
...story jumps ahead, like the bumping minute hand of a clock, to 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1918, the present. Familiar figures are suddenly there no more; new ones appear; the passage of time is as apparent as in the cinema of a growing plant. In the last scene the whole family have come together in a big informal party. Eleanor, noted now for her rambling tongue and inability to finish a sentence, is over so. Rose, the baby, is stout and deaf. Milly is as fat as her jovial husband, who "swayed from side to side...