Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME erred. As early as 1908 Mr. Curtis gave a demonstration in his Chicago home of "directing light to the ceiling by powerful silvered reflectors." The Bauhaus does not claim the invention of indirect lighting, but is credited with its outstanding modern development. One invention the Bauhaus does claim, is the "bleeding off" of photographs in books and magazines (running them across margins and off the edge of the pages...
...were the only party headquarters to receive a post-election visit from Mayor LaGuardia. Posing with Leaders Rose and Antonini with a copy of Lawyer Ernst's Supreme Court book, The Ultimate Power, clasped in his chubby hand, His Honor was the very picture of a modern labor-loving mayor. That he was A. L. P.'s mayor any more than he was Fusion's or the Republicans', however, Fiorello LaGuardia denied in one of his explosive bursts of advice: "Your party is clean now and has lofty principles, but it is hard to maintain these...
...affairs whose time literally is money and the semisocial people who consider air travel modern and fashionable are already airline customers. Still securely anchored to earth are thousands of housewives, school teachers, foremen and clerks whom TWA now wants to make air-minded. Last year's six-month experiment with reduced fares which resulted in 100% increase in passengers and a 50% increase in revenue in the first two months convinced TWA that fare cuts serve this purpose...
...area bounded by the Greeks at one end and grandfather's favorite engravings at the other. The remarkable History of Art of Elie Faure, who died fortnight ago, actually a long, interpretative essay, left still undone the work of writing a factual history of art from an enlightened, modern point of view. This week a large, clear book by Critic Sheldon Cheney* seemed to fill the bill...
...Rockwell Kent to make their first litho graphs, that the fluttering ribbons of his eyeglasses have been in the thick of every U. S. art battle for a quarter of a century. His first wife, Marie Sterner, long a Manhattan art dealer, was among the first to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. His son, Architect Harold Sterner is a World War veteran and designer of the Helena Rubinstein beauty parlor...