Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual junket to Pittsburgh is a sort of esthetic American Legion Convention, turned up their noses at the choices of the prize jury. In 1934 they objected to Peter Blume's surrealist South of Scranton as the work of a decadent school of non- sense. In 1935 Spanish Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes' prizewinning picture of a young Negro couple on a sofa was held inferior to dozens of U. S. paintings of the same type. Of Leon Kroll's Road From the Cove Critic Henry McBride wrote in the New York...
...difference between Catalonia and Russia," reported Mr. Duranty in the New York Times, "was strongly emphasized to me by [Anarchist] Garcia Oliver, a sturdy young man in his early thirties, wearing a militia uniform with a Sam Browne belt and a pistol on his hip. The scene was reminiscent of early revolutionary days in Petrograd...
...repeatedly threw his landlady, who was attempting to dispossess him, out of his apartment, causing her to be hospitalized for bruises, shock, a possible fractured hip...
Please, dear TIME, never again apply the word "shabby" to Churchill Downs. It makes every true Kentuckian reach for his hip pocket. DANIEL E. O'SULLIVAN...
TIME would be loath to cause a Kentuckian to reach for his hip pocket, unless he were merely toting a pint of Kentucky's famed bourbon. Nevertheless, modernistic though its clubhouse may be, the industrial and low-rent residential neighborhood surrounding Louisville's Churchill Downs makes that celebrated race course seem shabby indeed...