Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them with Claude Lorrain and ended by finding them incomparable. His Snowstorm, for which he prepared by having himself lashed to a mast for four hours during a Channel blizzard, was too much for almost everybody. One of the finest, in his own estimation, was The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838. This sunset picture of a black, belching little tug beside the spectral jewel of the old ship-of-the-line made Thackeray lyrical was never sold in Turner's lifetime...
...when he had his first exhibition in Paris, Grosser has enjoyed a quiet -and growing-reputation in Europe, almost none in the U. S., where he is known, if at all, as a collaborator with his old friend, Composer Virgil Thomson, on the Gertrude Stein operetta, Four Saints m Three Acts. Yet Maurice Grosser's painting belongs to a school which is just what the doctor ordered for critics who carry on indiscriminately about "modernism" in art (see p. 36). Grosser owes nothing to conventional impulses yet is a firmly "representational," sensitive draftsman. His particular passion, however, is color...
After conferring an honorary doctorate of laws upon Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth, Columbia's aged Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler* called her "Doctor." She bridled: "I'm a military woman. Call me General." Playful old Dr. Butler then referred to her as "Doctor General." Said General Booth: "Just call me Evangeline...
...progressive claims, was full of bunk. To start a bunkless college, Rice and his followers went to the place where the word came from-North Carolina's Buncombe County. There, on a mountainside near the village of Black Mountain, they rented for the college year a Y. M. C. A. summer-conference hotel, a huge white-columned building with a magnificent view of the Craggy Mountains across the Swannanoa Valley. First year, Black Mountain's teachers drew no pay. To help support the college, teachers and students ran a farm, did their own housework (except cooking and dishwashing...
...mailed the bottles to 81 advertising agencies. His note: "Stranded! On an island in Cambridge, Mass., a college graduate-to-be in June, will work like hell for passage into port. Gold stored here with me (training in arts, sciences, business . . .). You're going ahead and I'm going your way. Have you room in the hold for a man who can prove he's worth his salt?" Soon John West began to get replies. Said one: "Altering course to pick you up." When he graduated last week, John. West had a job with a Philadelphia advertising...