Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christ & Picasso. The show centered on nine paintings of the Crucifixion, done in oils on thin paper. Rose had long been regarded as a decorative, eclectic artist with a low emotional octane rating: overnight his new pictures established him as a force in British painting. Said London's Art News & Review: "This remarkable series of paintings is not romantic or expressionist, as are most Crucifixions, but may rather be described as liturgical, ritualistic, learned and arcane . . . executed with great resource and command of the medium." Describing Rose as "an artist who believes in both Christ and Picasso," the Catholic...
Though his paper was the spokesman for U.S. business interests in Shanghai, it was also a longtime critic of the "feeble and decadent" Kuomintang regime, and for a time it had regarded the Communists with a tolerant...
Dancing Taught. When Pearl Harbor came, Gould was in the U.S. The Japanese shanghaied his paper, publishing a Rising Sun house organ under the familiar masthead. To counteract its propaganda effect, Publisher Starr and Editor Gould opened up shop in New York and flew the weekly edition to Free China for distribution. Barely a month after V-J day, Gould was back in his old Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed...
...shares soared as fast as those of Free State Gold Areas, Ltd., the company which owned options on the 4,200-acre Erfdeel farm. From 13s.6d. ($2.72) the shares rose to a top of 36s. ($7.25), giving whopping paper profits to Free State Gold Areas' principal owner, Joseph Milne...
...African Press Association flashed still more exciting news. A test bore on another farm near Erfdeel had reportedly assayed out even richer. At this, Jo'burg's frantic speculators ran up the Free State Gold Areas shares to a high of $11.28-and Promoter Milne's paper profits were estimated at somewhere between $8 million and $20 million...