Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Artist Cadmus talks about his dependence on the U. S. Navy, he means its 78-year-old veteran Admiral Hugh Rodman. In 1933, already spotted by scouts as a promising etcher with a strong satiric bent, Paul Cadmus returned from two years in Majorca, found commissions hard to get. From the Public Works of Art Project he received an average of $35 a week to stay in his own studio, paint what he liked. What he liked was a group of U. S. sailors having raucous and somewhat indecent fun with their molls on Riverside Drive. He called...
...prodigious jumps with hedges so thick that legend says a man can walk on them, the Grand National is the hardest horse race in the world. Winner by three lengths at odds of 100-to-6 last week was Royal Mail, ridden by Evan Williams and owned by Hugh Lloyd Thomas, charge d'affaires at the British Embassy in Paris. Second was James Rank's Cooleen, third, E. W. W. Bailey's Pucka Belle...
...Jane, neither English nor a singer, accepts the misrepresentation because it offers her an opportunity to capitalize her talent for dancing and because, though naughty, its consequences are nicer than the other two things she could do: 1) go back to school, or 2) marry an awful fellow (Comedian Hugh O'Connell...
...this the Commission has $200,000,000. Said Columnist Hugh Johnson last week: "Chairmanship of that commission is just about the most important administrative job in the Government...
...magic word in Soviet Russia, orators telling everyone as Lenin did that "Electrification, plus the Soviet Power, equals Socialism!" This dazzling equation was given practical expression by erecting the great Dnepr dam, on which 30,000 Russians toiled for five years under Russian engineers topped by U. S. Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper who always gave them every credit, received a reputed $125,000 in cash, had a onetime chef-to-the-Tsar cook his meals and also enjoyed a private car. Today all standard Soviet handbooks state that "nine" Dnepr hydroelectric turbines are, not only built but "in operation...