Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painter of such illustrious opposites as Frank B. Kellogg, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI and Bebe Daniels' grandmother, took the palm for traditional solidity. At the Marie Sterner Galleries Arthur Kaufmann, capable and colorful German emigre, showed character studies of the late George Gershwin, Luise Rainer as a plain and pensive 17-year-old in Düsseldorf. At the Georgette Passedoit Gallery were 23 oddities by a healthily impudent 21-year-old Danish girl named Isa Neuhaus. In the U. S. for one year, she has had 20-minute sittings with Bishop Manning, painted subtly all in mauve...
...Germantown, Pa., designer Willet's latest and most guild-minded window was dedicated. It was commissioned by Architect J. Roy Carroll Jr., in the belief that, if the church had at least one good stained-glass window, parishioners would be inspired to replace the others, which are plain. When the contractors, subcontractors and workmen heard that Henry Willet was designing a "Workmen's Window" to represent the various trades engaged in building the church, they clubbed together to pay for it. Designer Willet happily put Architect Carroll at the bottom of the window, looking pale, and the stained...
...business of peddling propaganda almost since he could walk. His first work as a boy was selling newspapers. He taught school for a year after graduation from Ohio State University but dropped that to write advertising copy for a Columbus department store. Working as a reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he asked for the assignment to cover education, within a year shifted the city's newsorgans' attention from political squabbles to constructive achievements of the schools. This won him a job as public relations man for the Cleveland school system. He was the chief witness against Eugene...
...rumored to be in line for an important Government post, the Yakima daily Republic sourly headlined an editorial: "Yakima Not at Fault." Reason for the daily Republic's lack of enthusiasm over the possibility that William Orville Douglas might become chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission was perfectly plain. That stalwart Republican newspaper was echoing a widespread belief that Bill Douglas was a financial radical of as deep a dye as the New Deal has yet produced...
Final scenes of field work will be at the Phillippines, where a survey will be made of the coastal plain near Manila reported to be rich with fossils, perhaps those of the same animals which were recovered with a Java and Pekin Man. If true, such a find would be most valuable in the study of animal migrations form southeastern Asia toward the new World...