Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public Law No. 361, the Tariff Act of 1930. Its legalistic loophole: the word "original." Last week it appeared that Manhattan customs officials had squeezed certain of the grey-and-chalk Paris street scenes of Maurice Utrillo through the loophole, ruling that they were copies of postcards, therefore commercial rather than original art, therefore dutiable at 15% of the price they fetched in France. Duty was applied specifically on one importation of Manhattan's Perls (pronounced perils) Galleries, Rue Saint-Vincent a Montmartre; and on a score imported by the Valentine Galleries for a show which opened this week...
...fashionable paintings, worth from $200 to $2,000 each. What saddened dealers, critics (including the Museum of Modern Art's President Anson Conger Goodyear and Director Alfred H. Barr Jr.) and artists in general was the ruling's implication: that an artist's model rather than his method determines whether his work is original...
Hollywood often wastes superb treatment on worthless themes, sometimes miserably botches good themes. Boy Slaves and ". . . one-third of a nation" are likely to discourage Hollywood from tackling like matters, for if these pictures are financial failures, producers will blame it on the material rather than their methods...
Lincoln Talks consists of some 800 anecdotes lifted from correspondence, newspapers, biographies, books of jokes, gossip, legend. Any Lincoln story is fun to read, and since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...
...perhaps the best man who ever lived, voluntarily submitted to death at the hands of an imperfect government rather than save his life by breaking the laws which had been established by consent." Called the same day to the Chancellorship of the Fascist-threatened Republic, he draws up a sound economic program, a speech to men of good will...