Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the shouting had died, impartial critics tried to estimate Art Week's serious value. Though artists, big & little, were loud in their joy over Art Week's quantity production, many first-rate artists had either refused to exhibit or had hung their least salable work. Though by mid-week Cleveland bought $1,250, San Francisco $1,300, New Orleans $210.15, Los Angeles $2,000, Denver $600, Jacksonville $580, Portland, Ore., $329.10 and New York City $2,700 worth of art, sales managers, disappointed in these figures, figured that Art Week's main purpose (selling...
Writes Biologist-Rhetorician Donald Culross Peattie: "What science calls for today are life histories and ecological studies. . . ." So, while Seton's woodlore was never taken overseriously as science, science is moving his way. Meanwhile, bird feeders and fireside gun polishers can en joy Seton's accounts of moose hunts under golden moons, blue jays protecting their young by imitating hawk screams. And insomniacs may heed his observation, "a sheep's ears must point forward as he leaps...
...Fratellinis of the Cirques d'Hiver, Medrano and other arenas; in Paris. Wrote France's Minister of the Interior when the Three Fratellinis were awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor: "I congratulate you heartily in the name of all the little children of Paris, whose joy you are, and also in the name of their lathers, those other big children, whom we call...
...Noble Lecture foundation was established by Nannie Yulee Noble in memory of her husband, who graduated in 1885, in the "hope of arousing in young men the joy of service for Christ and humanity, especially in the ministry of the Christian Church...
...never smokes nor drinks, likes the same old-fashioned dances his boss likes, even likes to eat roasted soybeans, soybean bread, soybean soup. With a soul-deep belief in every Ford dream, Boyer last week was stunned with joy. His chief gave him authority to order a complete set of dies for the first road model of the plastic automobile...