Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France has its Louvre, Britain its National Gallery, but "the homeless masterpieces of the U. S." have nowhere to hang. The outcry for a national gallery at Washington has already resulted in the subscription of $10,000 to pay the architect's bill. Now the drive has begun in earnest, Congress having donated the site. The drive is conducted by 350 branches of the American Federation of Arts...
...socially penetrating Cosmo Hamilton. Into a household lately bereft of its entire corps of servitors, he introduces a quartette of nobles from the vicinity of the Volga. One of these is smitten with an urge to paint and secures permission to copy a trio of Rembrandts which hang in the family mansion. The discovery that the priceless canvases have been removed from their frames in favor of the copies requires the services of a detective. Nobility is incarcerated in the wood cellar. The subsequent denouement is so uniquely ingenious that no journalistic commentary can disclose it with propriety. Indeed...
Artists feel it would be inappropriate to take the picture from among its fellows and hang it in the Louvre as a solitary example of American art, although Whistler himself despised most American art and dreamed of the hereafter when he should be given Louvre wall-space...
Unless one is a rabid isolationist determined to let the rest of the world go hang, one must admit that the Bok Prize Plan is one the whole a sound and well-reasoned document. The first provision--to join the World Court--has already received wide-spread public approval, and the many refinements which have been made upon whether this does or does not mean getting sucked into the League of Nations are cast aside by the second provision. The latter provides for a gradual widening of American cooperation with the League which would lead eventually to membership pari passu...
Senator Borah: "No, not all of them, but you can deport those who are not an'd hang the balance...