Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reluctant Piutes, Sioux, Cheyennes and Navahos, some of whom had steady jobs on WPA to work in breechclouts, despite low temperatures Chuckled Mr. DeMille when the thermometer once approached zero: "First time I ever saw a red man turn blue." > Disliking the looks of contemporary Cheyenne, he built a pioneer Cheyenne to his taste at Iron Springs, Utah. > Dissatisfied with the color of the California dirt for track-laying purposes, he had it sprayed with chocolate paint...
Glamor Guys. The younger school of illustrators is, in technique, distinguished for lucid wash drawing, "suggestion" and glamor. Its pioneer artist is Italian-born John La Gatta, 45, a mustachioed believer in the tall brunette and one of the few big-money illustrators who providentially salted his earnings away in real property (on Long Island Sound, with a yacht) before 1929. La Gatta's specialty is swooningly sleek backs. The sex appeal which is La Gatta's stock-in-trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing...
...usually come very suddenly; seek shelter at once."). Its best accomplishment is its picture of the Oregon Trail's magnificent past-a picture communicated by rare photographs of wagon trains, railway construction camps, settlers' cabins, scalped hunters (see cut), as well as by new accounts of the pioneers who moved like a tidal wave across the plains. From Independence, Mo., to Fanny's Bottom, Ore., the Guide points out characteristic scenes of staggering pioneer enterprise, as well as scenes of casual pioneer poetry...
...Cushing would retire to the dressing room, dictate all his surgical notes, make his own sketches for hospital records. In his 20 years at Harvard, Dr. Cushing collected some 2,000 brain tumors, which he stored in bottles. Many of these are pituitary tumors, for Dr. Cushing has done pioneer work in diseases of this master gland. These specimens, with their corresponding case histories, form the most remarkable neurological collection in the world...
Seattle. Author Leighton writes woodenly about Birmingham, bitingly about Omaha, lyrically about Seattle. He finds the pioneer spirit, dead in Omaha, still flickering in Seattle; in the talk of the loggers on the Skidroad at Yesler Way, in the logging camps, the history of the wobblies and the Weyerhaeuser fortune, in the remark of a Seattle housewife: "I have got to go over to Olympia tomorrow to help put pressure on the governor...