Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smartest architect, Paul Philippe Cret. Last week the first completed piece of sculpture, Spanning the Continent, by Robert Laurent, was quietly installed in one completed terrace. A goodly distance from Mr. Samuel's lonely Viking, it consists of a stumpy, sun-bonneted female figure helping a gaunt pioneer youth push a large wheel in the direction of the Philadelphia Zoo. Critic Dorothy Grafly of the Philadelphia Record coldly reported: "Even the heads seem parts screwed...
...proposed New Deal bill for the registration of firearms the Tribune says: "Another how! has arisen from those who point to Article II of the Bill of Rights forbidding infringement of the right... to bear arms. May we remind such objectors that this constitutional provision was adopted ... When pioneer conditions required that the householder become his own policeman? An insistence on its literal interpretation is shown to be absurd when we reflect...
...readers remember the pioneer farmers of fiction. For one novel of the calibre of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth or Hamlin Garland's Middle Border stories, a thousand others appear and are forgotten within the month they are published. A few, like Ruth Suckow's novels of Iowa farm life, are praised but little read...
...Free Land is the story of a newly-married homesteader in the Dakota territory. Although claim jumpers, land-grabbers, Indians, horse thieves, come into the story, and the hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events; in comparison with them, the struggles of the people, for all their physical vigor, seem pretty placid. The story suggests a landscape by Grant Wood-sweeping vistas of prairie country in which human figures appear as small and indistinguishable...
...maestro (and one of the six or seven most eminent in the world), Conductor Beecham has been conducting opera and furiously fostering operatic activity for nearly a generation. He has lost fortunes on it, has fed it generously to hungry audiences and stuffed it down less eager throats. A pioneer in presenting new works, he has given Britishers their first taste of more new operas (including most of Richard Strauss's stage works) than anyone of his generation. Today he is regarded by his fellow Londoners as the soul of Covent Garden...