Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League, left him an invalid for the rest of his life, he was visited by a Senate subcommittee, ostensibly to discuss a Mexican treaty, actually to decide on his fitness to continue in office. Leader was New Mexico's Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, who entered the room "looking like a regular Uriah Heap, 'washing his hands with invisible soap in imperceptible water.' " Said Senator Fall: "Well, Mr. President, we have all been praying for you." Said the President: "Which way, Senator...
Most unusual of Mrs. Hughes-Hallett's fiestas was one for Dr. Emil Rothman on his return from Cleveland after a serious abdominal operation. Suddenly a long-faced butler wheeled a hospital operating table into the centre of the drawing room, with careful solemnity folded the sheets back, revealing a dummy with a pink tissue-paper stomach. The "stomach" was split open and out came spaghetti and link sausages...
...might have been writing to his solitary self, for enthusiasm has never approached the leprous about Marsden Hartley. A steadfast New England eccentric, whose writings and paintings made sense first to Alfred Stieglitz in 1909, Artist Hartley sits in Maine apainting in the summer and in a Manhattan room ascribbling in the winter, with no public attention what ever. Last week at 61, weathered, heavyset, bright-eyed Marsden Hartley had his 25th one-man show at the Hudson D. Walk er Gallery and made something...
Omitted at first from the purple patches and golden numbers of New York World's Fair publicity was any mention of contemporary art. Outraged artists last year made a stink about this, persuaded Fair President Grover Aloysius Whalen to make room for an art exhibition under the seasoned direction of the Federal Art Project's Holger Cahill (TIME, April 25). Since then a modest, good-looking building has gone up and U. S. artists and museum directors have gone ahead with a national competition to select 800 works...
Compulsory health insurance, says this propaganda, encourages malingering, actually costs more than private medical care, is "detrimental to the nation's health." Under the English health insurance system, says one booklet, "the . . . patient will not hesitate to come along into the waiting-room collarless and even coatless, nor does it add to the comfort of other patients when one is compelled to put up a large notice [asking] . . . patients . . . not to spit on the floor...