Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...material of art is common property. So is the finished product. The process of making one into the other is the trade secret of artists, but on each book, picture, statue is the trade-mark of the maker's tools. The smoothly machined product of such novel-factories as Edna Ferber needs no watermark: consumers know it is standard brand, Grade B entertainment, an honest product sold for an honest price...
...citizens not politically minded, Franklin Roosevelt is still what he became on March 5, 1933 the night of his first fireside talk: "our beloved President," Franklin the Good. To political realists, who try to regard him as a man and a maker of policies, he has given one shock after another, upsetting all attempts to identify him. In spring 1933 (banking crisis) they labeled him Man of the Hour. In summer 1933 (Economy Act, NRA) they relabeled him Man of Recovery. In autumn and winter 1933-34 (dollar devaluation; spending program) they relabeled him Man of Experiment. In the spring...
Born in Virginia, George Caleb Bingham moved with his family to Howard County in 1819. Left fatherless at the age of twelve he worked as an apprentice cabinet maker and cigar roller, turned to painting as a profession when he met an Eastern artist named Chester Harding who had gone out to the frontier to paint the portrait of the aging Daniel Boone. A severe attack of measles left Bingham as bald as an egg at the age of 19. For the rest of his life he wore a succession of handsomely curled wigs. Quick success in painting portraits...
...appealed to him. The very name somehow seemed ideal. Artist Anderson concentrated on Henry, perfected the simple lines of his domed head, big ears, full cheeks, skinny neck. Eyes, nose & mouth, indicated by circles and dots, formed an expression of sublime self-assurance, competence, unconcern. Henry, according to his maker, was not really bald; he Jiad just had all his hair shaved...
Coming up from the Jayvees of last year, to undertake the difficult job of replacing Al Dillingham, Harvard's long range goal maker who graduated last June, Peter Jay has ridden into the number two position for an apparently permanent stay. Hampered early this winter by a tender knee, and riding through all the games with the joint well padded, Jay has nevertheless managed to make himself formidable to his opponents. He sustained another injury to the same leg, and will be out of the last Commonwealth Polo Association game before the team goes on the read to West Point...