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...eyed and reformed, the wealthier husbands of Detroit sifted back from the New York Automobile Show last week full of new orders and bicarbonate of soda. Meanwhile Dr. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner had done his best to entertain their wives. At the Detroit Institute of Arts of which he has been director for eleven years, Dr. Valentiner opened the largest, most important exhibition of the work of Frans Hals ever held in the U. S. Of some 300 known paintings by that hearty old Dutchman, about 80 are in the U. S. Fifty of these were in last week...
...Drury defended the expenditure of money on school buildings. "How many cities can you name that have been impoverished by an elaboration of school structure? . . . Yet when we recall that American soda fountains draw more revenue than is expended on the 148,712 little red schoolhouses that are still open, the figures which follow indicate no extravagance. In 1931 Massachusetts spent $109 per pupil, New York $137, Georgia...
...ancient Quorn. Its pack is descended from the third Baron Arundell's 17th Century foxhounds. Its M. F. H. is a deep-dyed foxhunting man, Sir Harold Stansmore Nutting, late captain of the 17th Lancers and elder brother of the board chairman of Cantrell & Cochrane (ginger ale and soda water). Its subscribers are the heavy cream of the hunting gentry...
...meanings of which vary according to the context. 'Um' may mean 'These are good tripe and onions.' 'You smell like a rose,' or 'Waiter, another whisky and soda.' This sort of thing makes it difficult for the foreigner, but the English themselves can tell instantly what is meant by the lack of inflection in the voice and the complete absence of expression on the face." Writing of English millinery they call attention to "the tailored felt, worn en bash over the eyebrows or well back on the head, its slant depending...
...Indianapolis warehouse because the State lacks a suitable place to exhibit it. All three have a nervous electric quality which is peculiarly Benton's and which his pupils often try but fail to imitate. Painted from recognizable observations, all three portray such typical Americana as revivalists, bootleggers, stevedores, politicians, soda clerks...