Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employment drive. I appeared the day of the meeting on Jan. 6, 1932 and also the day after and at both meetings described the work the small committee had been doing, the contacts it had made. Since the Legion was thinking along the same lines, it seemed obvious that a great good could be accomplished if the two movements merged. The Legion furnished the workers out in the field, as did the American Federation of Labor, the other group furnished the advertising and publicity machine, which you describe in your article. There was no maneuvering about...
...Harry Payne Whitney, convalescing last week from a painful mastoid operation, got a medal in her morning's mail from the American Art Dealers Association "for conspicuous service to art in America." At the same time Mrs. Whitney's most obvious service, the pink and imposing Whitney Museum of American Art. did last week the sort of thing for which it was established. In conjunction with an amusing showing of the works of provincial U. S. painters of the early 19th Century, the museum had a memorial exhibition of the work of the greatest cartoonist the country has produced: Thomas...
...preface, summarizes: "The distinguishing aesthetic principles of the International Style as laid down by the authors are three: emphasis upon volume--space enclosed by thin planes or surfaces as opposed to the suggestion of mass and solidity; regularity as opposed to symmetry or other kinds of obvious balance; and, lastly, dependence upon the intrinsic elegance of materials, technical perfection, and fine proportions, as opposed to applied ornament...
...obvious that the government in itself is powerless. Indeed, the only effectual resource of the state for solving crimes is to ally itself with criminals, and never before has that alliance been so shameless. That the American people, moreover, should be willing and even eager to harbor and canonize one kidnapper because he will help them catch another, shows the government is no more than an expression of the popular ideal. When criminals take crime into their own hands there is nothing remarkable, but when outlaws get control of law, and both government and people subscribe, there...
...purpose of the play was to provide as much farcical comedy as possible--and this is the obvious, indeed the only sensible interpretation--then the authors err in exaggerating the fiendishness and small wickedness of the mother, Mabel Dixon Church, who would stoop to any depths to attain her selfish designs. Her machinations insert all too many semi-tragic lapses into the general hilarity for the best enjoyment of the authors' genius for the ridiculous in incident and character...