Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easiest ways to start an argument is to attempt to define art. Never has it been done to the satisfaction of any considerable number of people, although the production of such definitions is so constant, competitive and exciting among artists and critics that it amounts to a perpetual esthetic parlor game. Defined John Ruskin: "Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together." "Art," hazards John Galsworthy, "is that imaginative expression of human energy, which through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting...
...back to New York when her train is held up by cowpunchers masquerading as bandits. Finding that the man with a black handkerchief over his face who carries her off is her husband, she experiences a change of heart. Composer Nacio Herb Brown has contributed songs that are chilly parlor phantoms of real cowboy melodies. Cliff Edwards does a little singing. Best shots: Miss Crawford's camel's hair coat, her jodhpurs...
...socially prominent in apple-raising Dutchess County (above & east of Poughkeepsie), New York?a family full of "characters" and legends, a wealthy family that can indulge its eccentricities. At the age of ten Bob drew an indubitable horse on a large piece of paper, took it into the parlor for his parents to admire. They refused to believe that he had done it, punished him for lying. Discouraged, he did not try to draw again, for another 25 years...
...WISE CHILD?Farce in a parlor...
...knelt in prayer. Rubberneckers observed that the women's straw hats were circled with crimson ribbons lettered in gold. Later in the week the troupe sang, prayed and sermonized between performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Harry Hill's Gentleman's Sporting Theatre, Billiard Parlor & Shooting Gallery in the Bowery. Admission price was 25?. The troupers refused any share of the profits, saying that Harry Hill's money was the Devil...