Word: lively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conclusion: Question: What in the world keeps Dr. Thorndike in New York, TIME's editors in Chicago, and Franklin D. in Washington when you can all come to Wyoming and live where men are men and smell like horses...
Angna Enters' tourist observations are sometimes so accurate as to be childlike, as when she remarks that all Spaniards spit. Far from childlike, however, are the rich and strange characters she has imagined, costumed and made live in pantomime: a sultry, majestic Spanish girl of the 16th Century dancing the slow Pavana; a tragically refined pre-War young woman at a party in Vienna Provincial; and Queen of Heaven, for which Miss Enters recently got into the bad books of the Roman Catholic bishop of Montana. having quoted, as a program note, Henry Adams' remark that...
Though still to be found in its exclusively Australian habitat, the duckbill is nonextant as a foreign captive. In 1922, after spending nine years and $1,400, New York Zoological Park's deliberate William Reid Blair carried to The Bronx the only live platypus ever to leave Australia. It. tried for 49 days to adapt itself to an elaborate man-made labyrinth. Then it died, was stuffed and taken to the Newark. N. J. museum...
Most U. S. artists are the opposite of prolific, and only a few can live comfortably on their sales without some form of continuing support such as WPA has provided. Contrary to popular belief, in most cases it is not the dealer but the artist who pays for the gallery show by which public and critical attention is attracted to his work. Usual cost: anywhere from $150 for a modest show to $500 for a big one with a cocktail party preview. About the lowest price on a first-rate U. S. painting last year was $100. The highest price...
...most of the 200 writers who give the U. S. its surfeit of literary talk get no such fees. In the declining scale of rates, a best-selling author like Dorothea Brande (Wake Up and Live!) can count on getting $500 a lecture, while best-selling writers of the stature of Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama) are quoted at $200. The majority of lectures are delivered at prices ranging between $100 and $200, and in the case of impromptu readings of poets or proletarian novelists to radical groups, rates finally taper off to $5 an evening or just...