Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visual interpretation of Tannhauser music executed in ink by Tennistar Helen Wills Moody. Some San Franciscans: "Chicken tracks!" Said Mrs. Moody on how she got started on her in terpretations: "I played a phonograph record. ... I had a pencil in my hand and unconsciously I traced a pattern of the rhythm." Convicts in the educational department of California's San Quentin Prison voted as the most outstanding woman in public life Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, then hung an oil painting of her on the walls of their school building...
...worth from $25 to $50, but they are sold in terms of old masters-according to scarcity values. "It is talk that keeps Picasso's pictures alive; and when the talk ceases, his art will cease to exist. Its vitality is verbal." Matisse is a "rug maker," a "pattern maker," a painter of "lolling odalisques in diapered interiors." "When we say that his emotion is but another name for bourgeois well-being and that a fraction of it, equally distributed, informs his designs, we have said all that can be said of the content of his painting." "Scratch...
Virgil Thomson, composer of the rhythmic pattern score of "A Bride for the Unicorn" the Harvard Dramatic Club production, arrived in Cambridge yesterday to take personal charge of the chorus and orchestra for the production. Thomson's big work has been the composition of the musical score for Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts." The score, dedicated to the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...teammates, instead of providing interference, keep away from their opponents so as to be ready to receive a pass when the man. with the ball is about to be tackled (see cut). Tackling around the neck is permitted in rugby. The game has the technique of football, the pattern of hockey. Cambridge players last week learned one trick from Harvard: the spiral pass, for more distance and accuracy on a line-out after touch...
Following the accepted pattern of American politics, the dissatisfied elements in the middle-West are once again moving toward the formation of a third party. Already well-advanced in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, the Dakotas, and Montana, this movement promises to figure prominently in the approaching state elections and may be the decisive factor in determining the balance of power in the coming Congress. Third party movements in this region have been frequent in the past but have always failed to achieve their objectives because of opposition by both of the major parties...