Word: rampart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milch Galleries. Curator Burroughs selected two painters each from the Macbeth, Rehn, Downtown and Milch Galleries and one from Ferargil. Several good examples by each man were sent to the Museum. Next part of the spree was by the Board of Trustees' Committee on Painting, long a rampart of conservatism. Committee conservatives are Architect Cass Gilbert, Lawyers Elihu Root Jr., William Church Osborn and Sugarman Horace Havemeyer who has given the Metropolitan many a Degas, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes. Modernism might have been doomed but for Committeeman Cornelius Bliss, a recent appointee,* brother and estate executor of the late...
...where the waves and the great gulls shoreward go and love and fame to nothingness do sink. Or he turns to a nearer wonderland, to a walled garden where the lilacs, now past their fullest bloom, but lovely still, run in purple and mauve along the quiet walks. A rampart of hills slope toward the sunset, and their sides are covered with the flower called the torch azalea, whose scentless beauty can teach the Vagabond more than all the sages can. Further on there is a valley where the sentinel pines stand black against a setting of green leaved oaks...
...sides of the trucks. Meanwhile, up from the river came another parade, headed by Joseph O. Misshore, Negro embalmer, in a beaded leather suit, wearing the huge feather headdress of the Zulus, followed by a court of the Dukes of Africa. King Zulu led his retinue down North Rampart Street through admiring dusky throngs who planned to dance late that night at the Zulu ball. King Rex went on to the City Hall to receive the keys of the city and to the Boston Club to toast Queen Yvonne White, debutante daughter of Broker Sidney Johnston White. All afternoon maskers...