Word: slice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization of lofty standards, recognizes a public obligation for the diffusion of culture. Through its Committee on Education it has issued a splendid volume, The Significance of the Fine Arts†, to which various leading exponents contribute studies of their own fields, designed to increase appreciation and give a slice of background. Not unnaturally, the most space goes to architecture, which is treated in separate chapters on Classical, Medieval, Renaissance and Modern architecture, by C. Howard Walker, Ralph Adams Cram, H. Van Buren Magonigle and Paul P. Cret, respectively...
...recent years have used the slick technique of the magazines or dropped into easy burlesque. The epic remains to be written?and it will not be an epic of easy circumstances. Too many of our moderns of promise are already cursed with ease?seeming tied to the same narrow slice of life where every one is more or less of a gentleman. True, the soil is coming into its own somewhat?and the men of the soil?but not the machine and the men of the machine? nor the vast class who make amusement in one way or another...
...Indian Summer. The director of the Institute is in two minds about it. His first emotion was that "art was being degraded"; his second that "boxing is a man's game and a natural occupation " and therefore presumably as worthy of perpetuation in oil as any other slice of life. There is ample precedent; the Luxembourg has for several years contained a portrait of silk-hatted Jim Jeffries, called The Champion, by Charles Dana Gibson, and George Bellows has done an eerie pointing of boxers actually in the ring. Lewis values his painting...
...Mauff, executive Vice President of the Board of Trade, threatened to bring suit for Senator Capper's "defamation of character" of the Board's 1,598 members); Julius H. Barnes warned the farmers against the fallacy of price fixing; Senator Copeland advised everybody to eat another slice of bread for breakfast...
...usually generous output of short novels and short stories, on a new long novel. It will be all about the Irish, not the Irish question, and by the time it is finished she will perhaps have learned not to tell us every piece of meat and every slice of vegetable that goes to make up the daily Irish stew...