Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benton received $16,000 for the remarkable murals of American life which he painted on 1,000 square feet of wall surface in Missouri's capitol at Jefferson City. Also full of salty realism was his autobiography, An Artist in America. A Kansas City real-estate operator named Howard Huselton read the book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim...
...Howard Spring- Viking...
...West and South after their Manhattan popularity has dwindled. Ten percent of all books sold in the U. S. are sold in New York City and its leading favorite outsells the headliner of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and San Francisco combined. Thus a new novel like Howard Spring's My Son, My Son!, now leading the field in New York City, has just begun to sell in the West and South, although its total sale of 12,000 copies last month puts it ahead of the most popular books of those regions. Surprisingly The Importance of Living...
Came the dress rehearsal. Luckily (at Wood's suggestion, I think) the audience was small. Only Wood, Leslie Howard, Producer Gilbert Miller and I knew what was coming. A scream from the blackened stage indicated a time relapse of 145 years. The Wood subaudible note was "sounded," or more accurately, turned on. I was reminded years later of the effect by the sound from the bowels of the earth that yet was no sound, that preceded the big shock of the Los Angeles earthquake. The glass in every chandelier in the old Lyric commenced to tinkle softly, the opaque...
...American Newspaper Guild has known but one President: Scripps-Howard's mussy, curly-headed Columnist Heywood Broun. Hunched over a table like a rising half moon, Chairman Broun always sits when he presides over Guild conventions. After five conventions, Sitting Broun remains a good-natured, efficient chairman. Last week he was reelected by affectionate acclamation, but with little affection Executive Vice-President Jonathan Eddy was re-elected after two ballots...