Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a little selection of obviously promising work from the New Bauhaus' first year was included in the Old Bauhaus exhibition. Walter Gropius made it plain that he thought his friend had been gypped, his cherished school nipped in the bud. Said he: "What has been done to Moholy makes me very sad. I will not let the Chicago Association use the Bauhaus name for its own advantage...
...Professor James Joseph Short of Columbia University Medical School and announced that she wanted to reduce. Undismayed, Dr. Short gave her a thorough physical examination. She was only 32 years old, was in good health. The cause of her obesity was not malfunctioning of her thyroid gland but plain overeating. Dr. Short prescribed a well-balanced diet of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals amounting to only 600 calories...
...most revealing thing that can be said about the fine books of 1929 is that in those brash days even Wall Street believed limited editions a good thing. Once only millionaires and professional bibliophiles collected first editions. By the late 20s, however, even plain readers were buying a few, just as they bought a few stocks. And even printers began publishing de luxe editions. Of the whole lot, only two de luxe publishers survived Depression I: George Macy's Limited Editions Club, and Eugene Virginius Connett Ill's Derrydale Press...
...George Macy. A publisher before he was out of Columbia University, Macy had sold 11,000 copies of an anthology of F. P. A.'s light verse, organized his own firm, Macy-Masius. In 1928 he sold out to head the Vanguard Press, his last connection with plain publishing...
...Nash Buckingham, Derrydale's headline author, is unknown to most plain readers, will probably remain so. But to sportsmen, who buy his sporting tales on sight, this middleaged, powerfully built Tennesseean is famed as the world's greatest long-range duck shot...