Word: petitiveness
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First thing that Mr. Hearst's "best brain in America" managed to do after he had crutched his aching way into the hearing was to transform the quasi-grand jury into a petit jury of twelve good men and diffident. He gained the privilege of cross-examining his accusers and their witnesses. Also he gained the valuable opportunity of presenting his counter-arguments...
...Dale's collection of furniture and early American glass is nearly as good as her pictures. Chester Dale spent so much time and money in dealers' galleries that he has become a dealer himself. In 1928 he bought an interest in the Paris art firm of Georges Petit. As a collector-dealer Chester Dale has a stockbroker's memory, can astonish professionals by reciting instantly the market history of practically every important picture of the past 40 years...
...infernal circle of twentieth century art and changes his centre of gravity. ... In the view of Pierre Roy the picture ... is not a picturesque visible fiction. It is a second phase of life. It is also a reincarnation." M. George also describes M. Roy as a petit maître- a Little Master. By that M. George presumably means that Pierre Roy is not interested in the faces of prime ministers, prostitutes or the effects of the machine age, suitable subjects for Serious Artists. M. Roy is not. He is passionately interested in strips of colored paper, birds' eggs...
With a gleaming cylinder of silk hat balanced ceremoniously in his left hand, France's President Gaston Doumergue walked through the galleries of the Petit Palais on the Champs Elysees last week to open, dedicate and inspect the completed home of a collection appraised at $5,000,000 and offered to the city of Paris nine years ago. For nearly an hour he wandered through beautifully paneled rooms, expressing his presidential approval of cabinets of Sevres and Meissen ("Dresden") porcelain, jeweled watches, Battersea enamel, signed furniture from the great French ebenistes, a priceless series of tapestries from cartoons...
...Palazzo Vecchio to speak he was announced to the Florentine populace by two heralds in red and white medieval costume who put long brass trumpets to their lips and blew a blast heard a halfmile away. Last week Il Duce even carried his blasting to Paris. For the Petit Parisien he wrote an article attacking by implication Statesman Briand's dearest hobby and pet scheme, his projected European Union or "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...