Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrape together and signalize Canada's cultural fragments, Bertram Brooker, Canadian dabbler at painting and sculpture, music and dramatic critic, has compiled his Yearbook of the Arts in Canada ?limited to 999 copies?hopeful that "it will be produced annually if the public response demonstrates that it is worth doing." Because the fat volume is largely composed of disheartened little essays on the Dominion's dearth of artistic production, well might readers wonder why it was done even this year...
...auction of part of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum's great Havemeyer Collection (TIME, March 24). It had been labeled "School of Titian," but Director Valentiner, observing the sensitively rendered fingers of the Doge's hand upon his sword hilt, gambled $400 and had an expert scrape off layers of 30-year-old overpaint. In his judgment that this was a real work of Titian he was soon joined by no less a master of the genuine picture market than Sir Joseph Duveen...
...grandchildren of Alexander Graham Bell: Lilian Waters, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elsie Alexandra Carolyn, children of Editor Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor; Alexander Graham Bell, Barbara, and Nancy Bell, children of Botanist David Grandison Fairchild. In the Hollywood school, chubby Douglas Fairbanks Jr. learned to button shoes, fit blocks, scrape the second fiddle. The Dottoressa never married but her adopted son Mario is a finished product of the system. He is now 31 years old, married to Helen Christie of Cleveland, who teaches at the Opera Montessori...