Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Informed of Cassidy's arrest, Senator Blease of South Carolina asked mournfully: "Why do they pick on the Senate?" Always ready to believe the best, Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington, author of the Five & Ten Law, remarked: "There was nothing to show that he was delivering liquor to a Senator...
Someone had to show faith. The first to do so was T. B. Macauley, president of the Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, who said that his company (large institutional stock-buyers) was not selling, was buying (TIME, Nov. 4). Others quickly followed his lead. From Washington Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, radioed to the nation that its business was sound, that only 4% of U. S. families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther...
Last week in Manhattan the first one-man show of Modigliani was held. Among the 37 canvases, mostly portraits of his Paris friends, was one of his earliest heads and his last canvas, a large nude. Also shown was his last palette and a death mask taken in the hospital by his friends, the painter Kisling and the sculptor Lipshitz. It reveals a small ascetic face with sunken eyes, a very thin nose...
...distortion but defend it by saying that the Egyptians distorted, as did El Greco, the Italian primitives. The merits of Modigliani, they add, are many: his color is finely schematic; his line is sensitive and delineates the sitter's character with wit and insight; his best canvases show the feeling of a real primitive; he is akin to the Siennese, a true Italian...
...Western aircraft show at Los Angeles...