Word: saws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitors saw a 9 by 9 by 16 in. leaden casket, graven with abbreviations unmistakably referring to "Cristoval Colon, Almirante" (see cut). Inside it when last opened were once-human bone & dust, a bullet presumably fired into Columbus during some fracas before he sailed for the New World...
...native of Lafayette, Ind. (where he was an art-classmate at Purdue of George Ade and John T. McCutcheon), Bruce Rogers decided on book-designing instead of painting when he saw the first books of William Morris' famed Kelmscott Press. In the '90s, when Bruce Rogers started his career, U. S. books were as dingily printed as they were apt to be turgidly written. They provided an aesthetic sensation for readers not unlike that of walking along a muddy road in the dark. Bruce Rogers' imaginative, lucid, unaffected craftsmanship let air and light into book pages. Other...
...thought the Dali windows "extreme," told the management so. By noon Salvador Dali's sleeping mannequin had been replaced by a seated figure, his bather replaced by a glamor dummy in a tailored suit. No one cared, until late in the afternoon Artist Dali strolled by and saw the havoc that had been made of his havoc-making Freudian designs...
...maestro, but a pint-sized, 29-year-old Midwestern musician named Izler Solomon. When National Director Sokoloff left town in disgust three years ago, he left the job of reorganizing the orchestra in Solomon's hands. A shrewd young man, as well as a talented maestro, Conductor Solomon saw at a glance that his WPA outfit could never compete on the same grounds with the seasoned, long-established Chicago Symphony. So he and State Project Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving the classics to white-mustached Frederick Stock, they concentrated on the moderns that Stock was too busy...
...effective, Ordeal gives him material closer home. Pilot in the Royal Air Force Reserve, Author Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway) was deputy chief engineer (later chief) of construction of the airship R100, sailed with her on the first trip to Canada. In 1931 he formed an airplane company, saw it grown to 1,000 employes when he resigned last April. Ordeal to the contrary, Author Shute declares he is no alarmist. Average casualty rate in air raids, he says, is one per bomb; the rate of death is one to three casualties; hence three bombs are needed to kill...