Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention the 400 billions heaped up in the U. S., think that a couple of hundred millions per annum for five years is a very modest sum for them to ask for new equipment. Walter Bruce Howe, ardent president of the Navy League, exclaims: "The price of one picture show from every American each year, in addition to the present Naval budget, would provide the difference nicely...
...show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, was not exciting, but it was large and, for a good number of fine paintings and a few excellent sculptures, worthwhile...
Philip L. Kale's Aphrodite of the Sea Gulls, a large canvas and well hung, was possibly the most striking picture in the show, not for its originality,: so much as for a brilliant and airy prettiness. The surprising tangle of branches streaked with light in Ross E. Draught's Dead Chestnut gave the tree as much character as a face. William M. Paxton had sent in three portraits, for one of which he got the Beck Gold Medal...
...mouth. He might be compared to Douglas Fairbanks gone incurably insane. So unaccountable are his activities that some people trying to follow him, don't think that he is funny. They had best be absent from Rain or Shine. With meagre notable exceptions it is a wretched show. But for those who like Joe Cook it is heavenly ceremony...
...late experiment were unjust. If there have been ears to hear there have been complaints aplenty, and no good can come from the over-optimistic view that everything has been of the best in this best of all academic stunts. What Lampy has tried to do is to show this as a link in a chain of policy, the policy of withdrawing from active interest in the undergraduate element at Harvard to concentrate on the more esoteric functions of graduate study and research. Whether or not this is a sound conclusion is a question for careful reflection...