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...leader of an insurgent group of painters who were derisively called Les Fauves (Wild Beasts).* Outraging conservatives, they acquired much publicity but few customers. To Paris from Russia, three years prior, had come one Serge Stchoukine, an immensely wealthy Muscovite whose fortune came from importing the one luxury that rag-wrapped moujiks would not do without: tea. Tea Tycoon Stchoukine had bought the 18th Century Troubetzkoy Palace, filled its rococo halls with gilded French furniture and crystal chandeliers. He also had an instinctive appreciation of what the younger French artists were trying to do. In Paris he bought the Fayet...
Governor James V. Allred of Texas, himself a pollinosis victim, proclaimed a statewide "Hay Fever Day." At the Texas Centennial in Dallas, scores of damp-eyed snifflers assembled in an air-conditioned room, sang a plaintive song about rag-weed,* laid plans for permanent organization...
...three desks sat Jenkintown's (Pa.) Edward V. Sherry, Chicago's local prodigies Norman Saksvig and Edith Kohn. At another sat Cortez W. Peters, a 220-lb. Washington, D. C. Negro, wearing a brown silk polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year...
Lump is no violent epithet. In meaning it ranges from rag or garbage to rascal, mucker or good-for-nothing. Many a good Nazi has privately called Herr Streicher far worse. But the corollary of Streicher's philosophy that "A Jew is always a Jew," is "A German is always a German, even if he lives at the North Pole...
...that stinking little rag...