Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Director Force's taste is as impeccable as her temper is robust, the Whitney biennial has acquired, with the passing years, an added importance. It has become about as accurate a thermometer as critics have to show the temperature and trends of current U. S. painting. Reading the Whitney thermometer as of last week it might be said that abstract painters and technical experimenters are rapidly vanishing. Most present-day artists are now concerned with such Americana as lynching, unemployment, militarism, middle-class stupidity, lower-class squalor. Dozens of able artists have in 1934 found bread lines...
...only living creatures he hated were full-feeders, publishers, stoats, weasels, and ferrets." George Moore's "was not a generous mind, but though full of treacheries to friendship it was unwavering in strict loyalty to itself." Katherine Mansfield, "a charming, pathetic figure," had a talent that was "not . . . robust . . . and it was overweighted by an impulsive admiration for the tales of Tchehov." To his much-maligned friend Hugh Walpole he gives the Swinnertonian accolade of "professional novelist." Bertrand Russell's cold logic irritates Swinnerton who says: "The suggestion that a man may know everything and understand nothing would...
Last week W. F. Hall Printing Co., which prints catalogs for Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other direct-by-mail houses, made Hadar Ortman its president. Robust, apple-cheeked, curly-haired, 36, he will head a company which prints more magazines than any other, at its 20-acre Chicago plant...
Refusing to be catalogued and classified as "a nice lot and bright," "meek," "Bohemian," "hearty and robust," and "swanky," the college girls retort with epithets and descriptions frank enough to disturb the most indifferent men. How disillusioned and perplexed must be the Freshmen who discovers a stupid Radcliffe lass or a Bohemian Wellesleyian. What tragedy and grief to find the Guide had erred. His weighty problem still unsolved where can he turn for guidance and initiation? The dank silence of his lonely room give forth no answer and his brooding only lessens his faith in humankind. Most miserable...
...than to try to make a living at it. While teaching at the University of Denver she learned how to keep bees, owned and managed a profitable Iowa apiary for six years. H. L. Mencken bought her early stories for Smart Set, gave her a good sendoff. Grey-haired, robust, 42, she is married to a fellow lowan named Ferner Nuhn, shuttles back & forth between East & West but still writes about home...