Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train was delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train was forced to spend a day at Chita because the single track east of there had been torn up in a clash between Bolshevik and Semenov troops. When track repairs had been completed, our train crept slowly on into White Russian territory...
...touched by mortality and repelled by stuffiness, he stayed in Europe until Depression called him home. His painting first went strongly Zuloaga, then Goya, then strongly Matisse, remains humorous and unruly. In the past few years his favorite subjects have been his twins, Michael and Chamberlain, and their more recent sister, Gabby. He once whiled away a short vacation in Key West by painting a pious mural for a convent where the twins had been boarding, then turning around to do a mural of captured sharks for Sloppy...
Among watercolors promised for the present show was an exuberant sketch of Old Friends Hemingway and Max Eastman in their recent bosom-baring scuffle (TIME, Aug. 23). At the last minute Painter Peirce changed his mind, dropped The Foibles of Fisticuffs from his list. On view this week, however, are new paintings of circuses and county fairs, bright canvases done at Key West, two views of the Harvard Tercentenary celebrations at Cambridge last year, charming paintings of the children. Critics detected a deepening in his work, belying one of the numerous Peirce ballads which runs...
...jerk and sneeze when treated. Children of ten to twelve don't squirm so much. In general, however, the method is still too bothersome and unproved for most doctors and parents to attempt, unless Dr. Peet, as he is trying to do, invents a flexible-tipped atomizer. Recent expert opinions on the question...
...Novelti bar in Rightist Salamanca or in the cafes of Madrid, reporters now congregate to exchange news if any. There is news aplenty, but except for a pushover job, such as the taking of Santander, the correspondents are kept a good eagle's flight away. In the recent heavy fighting around Madrid and in the big push now under way in the Aragon front, both the Rightists and the Leftists were in agreement that correspondents were not wanted at the front. But 400 men. even under restraint, can gather considerable information and when pooled it generally provides an adequate...