Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to my friends. ... I tried visiting firms in person. . . . Finally, believing that somewhere this side of a ledge at the Gotham there is a niche for me, I tried writing my story to well known persons in various fields, persons to whom job-getting would normally involve nothing more than a telephone call. There have been no replies. I am not from the tenements nor from the Junior League and assistance to me would bring them nothing of publicity or drama...
...Londoners who had just got over the war scare, an esthetic kick for the critics. The Times's, Eric Newton noted that in his studies for a screaming woman (see cut) Picasso had drawn each feature from the most expressive angle (eyes from the front, nose from the side, nostrils from below) for intensity. The Observer's Jan Gordon observed that the big composition employed Abstraction in its jagged design, Expressionism in its mangled figures, Surrealism in its eerie details...
...brush stroke a kind of scallop, his favorite atmospheric greys and browns full of warm or cold shine from the color elements in them. His compositions are sometimes epigrams in paint: a lighthouse stout and stark on a green hill crest with telephone poles slanting one way on one side, the other way on the other, as if in a tug of war that keeps the lighthouse rigid...
...duels with the Catholic Church, her sensational visit to Japan in 1922, a whirlwind missionary tour of India-are well known. But her beginnings-as the sixth of eleven children of a free-thinking tombstone carver in Corning, N. Y., as a nurse on Manhattan's lower East Side, and as a central member of the group of famous pre-War radicals which included Walter Lippmann, John Reed, Big Bill Haywood, Mabel Dodge-make the best reading...
...their campus,--the most beautiful in America, bar none--Virginians take their education in small doses. On the side, they learn a lot about guns and dogs and horses and history and co-eds. They find time to be in the vanguard of those who popularize such dance madnesses as the Big Apple and the Shag, which later ooze northward to fame. They learn how to talk general culture in a drawling, modulated voice that makes what they say sound authoritative. They learn that Richmond is the real hub of the universe. They learn that amatory adventures in parked cars...