Word: manly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Picasso's work up to the present, the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective show omitted only his student output and his recent sculpture (whose casting for the show World War II halted). Perhaps no other artist could survive so big a one-man show so well. It ranged from an academic study of moonlight and roses, painted in 1898 when Picasso was 17 and had already set himself up as an independent artist in Barcelona, to 1939 portraits in which he practices artistic schizophrenia and tries to catch several views of a face at once...
Down the list droned the clerk, paused at the last name and took a breath. Then, "Not guilty." Over Bill Knudsen's broad Danish face spread a grin. He turned and silently shook the hand of the man next to him. Then there was handshaking all around...
...Artillery shells filled with gravel which would spray muddy terrain in No Man's Land, make good footing for attacking infantry...
Under the lights in a South Bend, Ind. courtroom one night last week sat 17 respectable business men, numb with the same chill apprehension that narrows the eyes of every accused man when his trial jury announces it is ready with its verdict. Hulking in their midst was bluff, red-faced President William S. Knudsen of General Motors Corp., nearby the slim figure of G. M. C.'s millionaire Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. In the defendants' sanctuary around them sat 15 others: President John J. Schumann Jr., of General Motors Acceptance Corp., three of his vice...
Biggest thing on either man's public record is, by all odds, being chosen by Young and Swope. In 1937, when Wilson was vice president in charge of merchandise and appliances, and Reed general counsel to the lamp department, they were plucked and made respectively executive vice president and assistant to the president, there to ripen in the hands of Young and Swope. Last week's news was formal recognition of their coming...