Word: lofting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted 125 students each summer; Provincetown was more famous as an art colony than it had ever been as a fishing village; and Hawthorne had a reputation as one of the greatest of U. S. art teachers...
...Gouverneur Athenian Society ever had, then packed himself off to Yale. Broke when he entered, he organized and ran an eating club, marked himself as likely to succeed by being graduated (1905) with a financial surplus. He started making Life Savers 25 years ago in a one-room loft in Manhattan, stirring the peppermint flavor into the mixture himself...
...there is money in games-if you don't play them. Soon he secured rights to solitaire "Auto bridge" (a British invention) and organized a production company with himself holding the fattest share. Now his sideline has become a thriving business with several hundred employes occupying a spacious loft building in Manhattan...
...weeks after the first issue, TIME moved from its cubicles in the office of an advertising firm (just around the corner from Fifth Avenue and Manhattan's Public Library) to larger quarters on the second floor of an East-side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed...
...trappings hung from above, no canvas masonry affronted the eye of the 1937 realist. The play, up-to-date in dress and interpretation, was the thing. The red-brick back wall was the only backdrop, the gadgets of a more formal theatre hung idle in the wings. The high loft, emptied of its scenery, lent itself to a grotesque play of light and shadow. Below, on a bare stage platform graded down toward the audience by three steps, the Mercury Theatre players enacted a sinister tragedy of dictatorship...