Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emil Hurja at all. He calculates political pressure, not by the daily surge of press headlines, but by a dispassionate dipping into public sentiment far from the source of the immediate excitement. When Mr. Hurja looks in his black book, holding it close to his vest like a poker player, and says in a flat voice, "Roosevelt can lick Talmadge 4-to-1 in Florida," or "There is not a single Republican candidate who can carry his own state against Roosevelt," he is apt to be believed by non-partisan visitors...
...Titian was Venus and the Lute Player. Lord Duveen, after buying it from the third Earl of Leicester in 1932, lent it to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and to Venice's great Titian exhibition where it hung with the famed Venus of Urbino (TIME...
Venus and the Lute Player, finished when the world's longest-living (99) painter was about 83, is in Titian's "yellow & blue" period with overtones of the preceding "red & green." No diet-disciplined Hollywood beauty, the great-hipped, heavy-stomached Venus lies on a violet couch while a Cupid crowns her with flowers, and a boyish nobleman serenades her with a lute. The paint job is superb, the composition dramatic. Credited with being the first intimations of 18th Century Impressionism are the blue mountains, the wide vague plain in the background...
...President, who graduated from Lakeview High School, lives in Cambridge and Thaver 32. Like his brother George, he is a football player. He is also a member of the Union Committee and of the boxing team...
...than these results to the 350,000 people who watched the games was the scrupulous courtesy with which Nazi Germany utilized its opportunity to make a favorable impression on its visitors. Most significant squabble of the week was a minor argument in a hockey game in which a French player bit a Hungarian in the arm. More remarkable than the games themselves was the behavior of the guests, whose antics, touched by the sparkle of a gala sports event, kept transatlantic cables buzzing through the week. ¶In nearby Oberammergau, famed Anton Lang, Christus of the Passion Play, grew excited...