Word: handicraft
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...music in the South was formal and surrounded with cold, music in the North was warm and humble, made gay by the climbing spring. At the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec, was held the second annual Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival...
Died. Israel Zangwill, 62, English Jew famed as the novelist who interpreted the London Ghetto (Children of the Ghetto); in a nursing home in Sussex, England; of a break down due to overwork. Attendant at several English elementary schools, he stated that he was virtually self-educated. His literary handicraft produced The Big Bow Mystery (written to prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world...
...kept intact. Such a condition is highly unfortunate, for it does not allow the trustees to utilize the objects after the policy which is of most value, artistically speaking, both to the treasures and to the museum. The collection is not at all homogenous, it contains duplicates of handicraft already on exhibition, and among the paintings, although there are many priceless masterpieces, there are some, it is said, that are not worthy of museum walls...
...unusually good educational, historical, archaeological and fine and applied arts exhibits. The educational exhibits will illustrate in models, charts, photographs and printed matter, the Swedish educational scheme, including a section on the "sloyd" or manual training system in the schools. This "sloyd" is of great significance in the art handicraft and industrial art movement which has taken such great strides in Sweden during the past decade...
...Louis, twenty-five thousand men in that city alone will be thrown out of work. Throughout the Middle West, in Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, the same story can be told; thousands of men trained to a certain trade suddenly thrown on the mercy of the country. No handicraft during the period of the industrial Revolution was ever more thoroughly put out of business by the introduction of machinery than the trade of there men will be fetor the prohibition enactment...