Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. Two months ago the Museum of Modern Art called the attention of Manhattan esthetes to an almost forgotten genre painter named George Caleb Bingham, who was Missouri's favorite 70 years ago. Last week the Whitney Museum went its rival one better by filling three floors with other genre paintings by Bingham, his predecessors, contemporaries and followers in one of the most interesting exhibitions of the year, entitled "The Social Scene in Paintings & Prints from...
Though the show made no attempt to rival the historic Persian exhibitions in London's Burlington House (TIME, Jan. 12, 1930), it did offer a comprehensive outline of Persian illumination from its great period of Chinese and Mongol influence in the 13th Century to its degeneration at the end of the 17th Century. It gave gallery-goers some understanding of the feeling that prompted the 15th Century Shah Ismail to lock his favorite miniature painter Behzad in a cave before going to war with the Turks; that made Persian merchants value one line of perfect script at one gold...
...Fred. With his Share-the-Wealth movement he is now considered a potential rival to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Certainly he would like to become master of the U. S. as he is master of Louisiana. His hero is Frederick the Great of whom he says: "He was the greatest who ever lived. 'You can't take Vienna, Your Majesty. The world won't stand for it,' his nitwit ambassadors said. 'The hell I can't,' said old Fred, 'my soldiers will take Vienna and my professors at Heidelberg will explain...
...personable a singer as his most serious Hollywood rival, Lawrence Tibbett, Nelson Eddy arrived in cinema by an even more circuitous route. Born in Providence, R. I., the son of a manufacturer of equipment for submarines, he made his debut as a soprano in the choir of Grace Church. After a grammar & night-school education, he went to work, first as a telephone operator in an iron works factory, later in the art department of the Philadelphia Press, stayed with that paper, the Evening Ledger and Bulletin for five years as reporter and copyreader. Later he took to writing advertising...
...Attorney General. A year later Lawyer Biggs retired to private practice in North Carolina, made a great success as an eloquent pleader before small-town juries. When Roosevelt was elected, Mr. Biggs aspired to be Solicitor General but, unlike many another, he did not set himself up as a rival of the potent and popular Professor Frankfurter...