Word: priding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Cornwell (47), learned illustration under Pyle-Pupil Harvey Dunn and about 1916 got a free hand from the late Editor Ray Long to become Red Book's (later Cosmopolitan's) pride and joy. His illustrations for such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche and Somerset Maugham were as exotically escapist as the tales themselves, and his studio became famous for its clutter of authentic props. In 1922 tall, enthusiastic, travel-loving Artist Cornwell went to London to work with Frank Brangwyn, has since incorporated that decorator's style with...
When Chicago held its fair, the whole city was steamed up-not only the concessionaires and tradesmen, direct beneficiaries, but citizens whose enthusiasm was born of civic pride. The anomaly of the New York fair is that most New Yorkers have been genuinely bored with it. For the cosmopolitan conglomeration that is New York City has less civic interest, is less given to boosterism, than any place in the country. The sole reason New York has a fair, let alone the biggest in history, is that a small, hardheaded group high-pressured the city, the nation and most of Europe...
...matter is that we have among us a group of very clever men possessing the morality of dope-peddlers or munitions manufacturers whose maxim is, "the consumer is responsible for his own folly." These men will continue to prosper, barring violence to their persons, as long as students lack pride in their own work and would just as soon "let George do it" for a few dollars. One slacker in the student body tends to ruin the morale of the whole, since such a one can boast to his working comrades...
Recently tall, husky Sampson Nkbinde tried to collect a bad debt from Chief Shembe of the native sect of Nazareth Baptists, who pride themselves on never smoking, never drinking, never getting angry. Chief Shembe would not pay. Then Sampson rose in his wrath and slew four Nazareth Baptists. Still Chief Shembe would not pay. Sampson said, in effect, Pay-or else...
...task of George Ross Leighton in Five Cities is to restore the old landmarks which civic pride generally conceals. In his book tumbledown factories are landmarks, as well as the homes of the great. His heroes include failures as well as successes, suicides, people who bet on the wrong real estate developments, bankers whose banks have never reopened. He pictures...