Word: philadelphians
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...regional writing-shallow local color and uncritical acceptance of apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers. As an example of such journalism, Powder River is no worse than its predecessors, except that Struthers Burt, 56-year-old Philadelphian, best-selling novelist and owner of a dude ranch in the Jackson's Hole country of western Wyoming, has contributed an exclamatory style that can be described only as Wild West prose...
Americans may think of Washington freezing at Valley Forge, of Patrick Henry demanding liberty or death, but they never catch Benjamin Franklin in such heroic poses. Instead, the old Philadelphian goes beaming and nodding through history, saying chuckling things to pretty girls, advising young men to save their money and get up early in the morning. Whether he is denouncing the King, flying his kites or delivering himself of his flawless platitudes, he is self-confident, unselfconscious, comfortable, good-natured insatiably curious...
...Academy of the Fine Arts, was born in Indiana and adored Velasquez. His pointed beard and the Bohemian elegance of his clothes assisted his talent in making him the most popular teacher of his time. In the early 1900s, one of his favorite pupils was a spindly, silent young Philadelphian named Charles Sheeler. On seeing many a Sheeler sketch, the master would drop his beribboned eyeglasses and cry, "Don't touch it!", meaning that deliberation was bad for brilliance. If Charles Sheeler has proved anything in the past 40 years it is that his teacher was wrong on that...
...gone abroad early in the summer, expecting to be the first U. S. troupe to do so (TIME, Feb. 22). Everywhere they went they were a sensation. In Paris they danced eleven times in a week. President Lebrun attended opening night. U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, himself a Philadelphian, kissed Catherine Littlefield on both cheeks when the performance was over. When the Littlefield troupe danced in Brussels, King Leopold broke mourning for the first time to see them. Richard Henry Gillespie of the London Hippodrome hired the troupe for two weeks, had to extend their run to three...
Next to removing the Liberty Bell from Independence Hall or the fat statue of William Penn from atop the City Hall, the most preposterous suggestion to any Philadelphian would be that Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) would rise from its great 12-story brick and steel nest where it prints 17,500,000 magazines every month*, ruffle its tail feathers and waddle away to another State...