Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they were directed at what is supposed to be the inmost-vortex of the pleasure-chasing current of American life. Last week's developments were notable because they transmitted a realistic picture of that vortex to millions of people who had never seen it except through the falsifying medium of cinema...
TIME'S method of axe-grinding is the most subtle in journalistic history: It is therefore the most powerful and unimpeachable. One does not mind that in so excellent a news-medium. What one does mind is such far-fetched pretensions to the opposite...
Workers in iron deal with a difficult medium and one which it is impossible to handle with two hands and a simple tool. Brandt, after he became successful in Paris before the War, had a large factory in which he made his graceful gates, balconies, doors and figured fire screens. During the War his plant was converted into a gun factory, and Edgar Brandt used his talent in metal for machines whose extreme beauty was that of cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker...
Metal work has fallen now into comparative disrepute. Once, when kings wore crowns, a goldsmith was as good as a sculptor, and usually was one. Today, with the vastly increased usefulness of metal, there has been a corresponding decrease in its popularity as an artistic medium. There are few good iron masters in the U. S.; the best known is Hunt Diederich whose works are popular in the homes of millionaires. The technique of iron work is exceedingly complicated: every expert has his own preferences in melting, moulding, dry-casting, wet-casting, as every etcher has his special tricks. Edgar...
...Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson Day in Washington. His assignment as Keynoter at Houston put an entire political party and a huge radio audience at the vocal disposal of a man long confined to the indirect, often anonymous, medium of the scrivener. Mr. Bowers made it a point to have his place on the program shifted to an evening hour, when more radios would be turned on. The Bowers speech began with contrasts between Abraham Lincoln and Harry Ford Sinclair and between the political schools of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander...