Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elderly Mr. Guggenheim found the Baroness charming, her collection of non- objective paintings stimulating. Quickly he was brought to see the error of his previous collecting, began to assemble red triangles, green circles, pink and lavender blobs by such non-objectivists as Vasily Kandinsky, Rudolf Bauer, Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy. As his collection grew he filled the bedroom of his handsome old colonial house in Charleston, S.C. with them, then redecorated his entire apartment in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in robin's-egg blue, cork walls and homespun tapestries to hang the rest. Over his marble fireplace hangs...
Under the presidency of "Stog" Stokes, the Pennsylvania Museum has equired a $20,000,000 building, topped with a huge pink terra cotta Zeus, and collections with an estimated value of between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000. Besides a very respectable list of Old Masters, it includes New York's beloved Madison Square Diana, and the finest collection of the works of Thomas Eakins in the U. S. But less than 20% of the interior of the tremendous
...revision of freight rates to give his carriers more revenue. But John Pelley is no worrier. Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with the pink cloud at least in sight. John Pelley, like a spry trainman who runs ahead to see that all is clear, is giving the pink cloud the highball...
Attorney's office. They were William Bernard Herlands, 30, chunky, pink-cheeked, piano-playing Columbia graduate who VT?.S to become his right-hand man; suave Jacob Joseph Rosenblum, 38, who sent Banker Jo- seph Harriman to jail and might have convicted the late Racketeer Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer if he had been allowed to conduct his prosecution in 1935; Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded...
Stamm) and Mrs. Davies' female secretary. This sort of candid Capitalism is, in a foreigner, the approach which commands the most respect from Bolsheviks in Russia today; they despise a Liberal or a Pink. At the Soviet frontier, where everyone must change trains, Ambassador Davies asked for a private car. Told that the Soviet has none, he cheerfully chartered a whole ordinary sleeping...