Word: mural
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact about this aggressive little college is that it openly boasts athletic scholarships. This follows from the abolition of intercollegiate competition last year and the attempt to set up a vigorous intra-mural system. Trained athletes are necessary to this plan, and St. John's doesn't see why they can't be educated too, now that the taint of big-time sport is removed...
...undefeated Kirkland House swimming team will meet Frank Vaughn's All-Star squad in what should be one of the closest intra-mural contests of the year in the Indoor Athletic Building pool at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon...
...Freiheit, Manhattan's Yiddish Communist paper, Bill Gropper does a daily cartoon, gets paid when the Freiheit can afford it. Without pay he cheerfully draws for the New Masses, the Sunday Worker. He makes his living free-lancing for capitalist publications, from Vogue to FORTUNE, painting murals for bars, hotels, Government buildings. His conservative employers run no risk of embarrassment. "To paint a mural that doesn't fit the place would be like painting swastikas in a synagogue," observes Artist Gropper. "If I were to paint a proletarian scene in a post office, Farley would jump...
...office of the U. S. Attorney Gen eral there rises a mural, full of social significance and figures of ample-bosomed, pensive women. Those great art critics, the Washington correspondents, have never agreed about its social significance, but they are sure that the guy in the right-hand corner is making soft talk to the bare foot woman in pink. One day last week a big crowd of them stood brooding before it when a side door opened and into the room walked Frank Murphy, elevated that morning from the Attorney-Generalship to the Supreme Court of the United States...
During his teens. Painter Karson started a muralitis epidemic in Chicago's financial district. A broker who specialized in utilities commissioned a mural for his customers' room, and Nat Karson gave him one symbolizing power, with a big muscle-bound brute in the middle. Other brokers quickly followed suit. Says Nat Karson: "The more muscles and machinery I painted, the better they liked it. ... When the crash came, they got demoralized and I got demuralized...