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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people know that Chic Sale's name, strict speaking, is Charles Partlow Sale. He was born Huron, S.D., 51 years at within sight of one of the structures he made famous in The Specialist. Ledges has it that Chic because "Chic" because he ran chicken farm near Madison Wis., between vaudeville engagements. Sale near got beyond the public schools in the shadow University of Illinois, be the Illinois Sigma made him an honored member...
This book his its greatest value as a careful critical discussion of the paintings and drawings now generally accepted as Gruenewald's. For this splendid artist needs to be introduced to Americans. Few travellers from this country take the trouble to visit Colmar in Alsace for a sight of the Isenheim Altar. Few go to Karlsruhe to look at the "Cruifixion" and the "Christ Bearing the Cross." Unless they have been warned, they are likely to pass by the Basel "Crucifixion", or the Stuppach Madonna, or even the two important works at Munich--"St. Erasmus and St. Mauritius...
...course the Professor may have been referring to the depressing stabs Americans make at actual gayety--that is, when they are working so hard to have a good time. Americans at play are generally a gloomy sight, indeed. A Rotary lunch-con, an American Legion convention or Coney Island is enough to dismay any philosopher, and the Puritans must have looked a great deal better while taking the one worldly pleasure they were not ashamed of--to wit, getting quietly and augustly fuddled...
...streets. For a few paralyzing hours word flashed through the city that White bombers had broken the rail line to Valencia. that Madrid was completely cut off. German and Italian aviators, the only people on the Iberian Peninsula who seemed to know how to set a bomb sight, had indeed struck the embankment of the Madrid-Valencia line in their strafing for Spain's Whites, but 90 minutes later traffic was resumed...
...next trench 30 yards away" seemed incredible, since the pilot could see, beyond that objective, one after another, 70 miles away. Lewis' strongest memories were not of isolated battles, although he recalled several of them, but of poetic and philosophic experiences high above the earth: his first sight of the War from the height of two miles, flights over London at night, successive realizations of the triviality of man's work. God, he reflected, could come within a mile of earth and never see a sign of humanity. Cities seemed only "curious and intricate agglomerations of little pink...