Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides editing and writing for his own paper, White has published several novels, and numerous essays and biographies. "A Certain Rich Man," his first novel, was published in 1909. His "Life of Woodrow Wilson," "Calvic Coolidge," and its sequel, the "Puritan In Babylon," published last year are among his more famous biographies...
...think for themselves. But the facts behind these boasts ring false. The sickness has spread until there is a shortage of schools, a lack of funds to maintain them, until their teachers are underpaid and often have never gone beyond high school themselves. The highest standards of a few rich cities and states cannot compensate for the slough of rural America...
...there must be general house cleaning. However, there is a common tendency to make too much of these faults, and they are used to rationalize things for which they are not responsible. The tutoring schools blow them up to huge proportions, using them to explain the most vicious practices. Rich and indolent students give them as an excuse in entirely unwarranted cases. And the fact remains that without the knavery of the Harvard tutoring schools, and without a wealthy, lazy clientele, the tutoring racket would not exist
...cover for Pope Leo XIII's study. A native of Germany but a longtime resident of Manhattan, Oscar B. Bach is, according to the current Iron Age, "probably the foremost metal craftsman of this country." He has done a great deal of impressive metal decoration for public buildings, rich men's homes, ships, mausoleums, world's fairs. Last week bemonocled, pipe-sucking Mr. Bach discussed with newshawks a metallurgical process which he had developed (after years of research), and which not only delivers stainless steel in a variety of colors but also increases greatly the corrosion resistance...
...gallery to make a splash is to put on a "subject exhibition." These range from stunt shows which purists deplore (e.g., "Great Rivers in Art" or "Paintings of Pigs") to loftier surveyals of important art forms. In the lofty class this week Manhattan's rich M. Knoedler & Co. presented "Classics of the Nude"-31 pictures from Pollaiuolo to Picasso. This was a good idea. The linear play and complex modeling of the human body, the textures, transparencies and color subtleties of the skin, have made nude painting what Bernard Berenson called "the most absorbing problem of classic...