Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern colonel ought to be, the cast is composed entirely of negro actors who accentuate the distinctive quality of the play. Thomas Moseley fills the difficult role of Abraham, the ill-starred hero of the piece, with credit, while the minor characters introduced as back-ground or as comic relief are so natural and at times so amusing that it is difficult to find any point in which improvement might be suggested...
...play safe, they do not aim so high, and they fail, in consequence, to be very interesting. Life--one keeps thinking as one reads them--surely must mean more to them than this? And one turns back to the Dial, even in its wildest moments, with that sense of relief that one finds in the actual
Died. Reuben S. Sleight, assistant to Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; when the airplane in which he, enroute to a conference on New England flood relief, was flying from Mitchell Field, N. Y., to Montpelier, Vt., overturned in attempting a landing at Montpelier...
...particular mode of expression, he ranges freely and easily from one to another. It has been his aim to understand and to practice the different modes of the art as they have been developed by the reat masters: the mode of outlines and flat tones; of low relief, of full relief, and of realistic representation of what we see as we see it. His idea is that the modern painter may use one or another of these modes as it serves his purpose. To understand these modes we must study the work of the masters, in which we find...
...Hearst, who long have danced up and down the columns wearing the leering mask of the British war lord and the awful face of the Japanese warrior-samurai, have stopped scaring the children with stories of the air fleets to pass in the night. With several heartfelt sighs of relief King George and the Mikado learn that William Randolph and all the little pitch pipes in the great Hearst organ are now braying towards Mexico...