Word: marcel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain is unlike any previous struggle, with factors of which the Duke of Wellington never dreamed, such as fighting planes from technically neutral countries. For every German with Generalissimo Franco there seemed to be a Russian with Premier Largo Caballero. The newly arrived Soviet Ambassador Comrade Marcel Rosenberg rode about Madrid importantly in a Cadillac limousine while the Red Militia cracked out executions. Nevertheless, with Generalissimo Franco's forces advancing on Madrid at a rate of five miles per day, another White army under Colonel Juan Yague captured the former Red Militia General Staff Headquarters at Santa Olalla after...
...Marcel Duchamp painted three Nudes Descending a Staircase. Two are alike save for a slight variation in tonality. Walter Conrad Arensberg owns all three, lent one to the Cleveland show in July, kept the other two at his home in Hollywood where he entertained Painter Duchamp in August...
Hitherto Joseph Stalin has never sent a Soviet Ambassador to Spain, but the Bolshevist Dictator last week transferred his League of Nations representative, resourceful Marcel Rosenberg, to Madrid. There Comrade Rosenberg found himself not only Soviet Ambassador but the sole Ambassador of any kind in the Spanish capital. All the others, including cigar-chewing U. S. Ambassador Claude Bowers and sherry-sipping British Ambassador Sir Henry Getty Chilton, considered it too dangerous to be in Spain at all. They were living at Hendaye, France, trying to agree on a diplomatic formula to be submitted to Spanish leaders of both sides...
...Artists Arthur B. Davies, Walter Pach and Walt Kuhn were busy organizing the famed Armory Show that was to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. Scouting for canvases, they went to the Duchamp brothers' studio, found four by youngest brother Marcel. All were cubist abstractions painted in a monotone, but quick-witted Marcel Du-champ gave them intriguing names: The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes; Chess Players; Sad Young Man on a Train; Nude Descending a Staircase...
...Marcel Duchamp has hardly painted a picture since. Carrying French cynicism to almost pathological lengths, he entered a shovel in an art exhibition at the Bourgeois Gallery in 1917 with an elaborate essay on its artistic worth, later bought a bird cage, filled it with lumps of marble, called it Why Not Sneeze? and sold it to Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable...