Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in a bedside manner familiar to many an ailing big business, Expert Bernays was ready to tell the patient all. "If the rate of decline continues," he warned at the outset, "in a decade or two we may expect to see the legitimate theater in New York disappear...
The Bible still holds its long-undisputed place at the top of the bestseller list, but to a vast proportion of its modern buyers, it remains a closed book. Texas newspaper Publisher Houston Harte (the San Angelo evening Standard and Standard-Times) often wondered why, especially considering that the Bible...
With a resounding pop, Italy blew off the lid that Mussolini had clamped on modern sculpture more than a score of years ago. At Varese, in the first all-Italian sculpture competitions in many a year, top honors went to a thin-faced, little-known Venetian named Alberto Viani for...
In 1931 two artists named Maurer had shows in Manhattan. One was a 99-year-old curiosity, spruce and sprightly Louis Maurer, the last living Currier & Ives illustrator, whose traditional sporting prints and genre scenes had sold like hotcakes in the mid-19th Century. The other was slender, sad-eyed...
Dangerous Company. Gallerygoers inspecting the 81 paintings could plot Alfred Maurer's uneasy and significant course through the first stormy years of this century. Starting as a cigar and soap-label designer in the '90s, Alfy decided by the age of 30 that art was more important than...