Word: slash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roark Hoey enjoyed the sight of a New Deal project, a new Fort Raleigh, erected by WPA. Then the President climbed upon a flag-bedecked stage and launched on one of his favorite themes, a modern political parable to a historical incident which he used as a broadsword to slash his political enemies...
...greater part of the exhibition was devoted to specimens of the cubist, futurist and surrealist schools whose experiments with scientific form and fantastic subject matter have made a Gordian knot of artistic theories. Art critics in Paris, London and Manhattan last week regarded Adolf Hitler's latest slash at this knot as possibly something more than the action of a man who lacks either the subtlety to untie it or the humor to let it alone. European surrealists have recently publicly allied themselves with the French and Spanish Communists, thus provoking the Führer's political enmity...
...down by a devilfish, his airline severed by a turtle's bite. Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife. Lowell Thomas explains that the captain's baldness is the result of a skull slash by a deep-sea monster, but makes no effort to analyze why the captain swims so awkwardly or why "a man of steel" should keep himself so plump. Killers of the Sea contains some really good shots of a white man and a Negro in a dory being towed...
Feared and hated by museum keepers the world over are those psychopaths whose muddled mentalities lead them to slash at paintings on display. Last week in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts found that 23 canvases stored in the cellar had been ripped by a slasher's knife. Soon police were able to report that this time the mutilator was no neurotic pigment-sticker, but one of the museum's own guards, piqued because his job had been liquidated. Ex-Watchman Joseph Cassidy admitted he had knifed a portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother...
...that the proposed mill could start shipping an annual 45,000 tons of paper Jan. 1, 1938. Assembled publishers from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas promptly raised $5,000,000 to build the mill, ordered its entire output. Present price of newsprint is $45 a ton. Southern publishers hope their slash pine mill, and others like it, can give them all the newsprint they want for around...