Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stages, scaffolding, a litter of broken plaster and a husky ex-cowboy occupied the small, tall Gallery of Contemporary American Art in the Detroit Arts Institute last week. Occasionally letting out a hearty "goddam" when something went wrong, the ex-cowboy was delicately daubing soft hues on the wet plaster walls, shaping dreamy, feminine figures...
...frescoes were simple, subdued, purely decorative idealizations. One of them, called Morning, showed three gracile, rosy-fleshed women floating in a pale blue, white-clouded sky. Another, Afternoon, showed the same figures wan and drooping in a nimbus of yellow light. Evening, on which Artist Carroll was streaking soft browns and blacks last week, shaped up as a galloping white horse with a muscular male draped on its back, one arm encircling another ZaSu-Pittsian female (see cut}. "There is no complicated message in this set," explained Artist Carroll as he put the finishing touches on his first...
...speaker lifts the pince-nez from his nose: they snap to their stations on his pearl grey waistcoat. Folding shut the little brown volume, he gathers a few odd papers, picks a soft grey fedora from the top of the desk. Students sit glued to their chairs. Gaily, resolutely, unperturbed the lecturer marches down the aisle and out the door...
Doll & Tears. In one morning, Shirley Temple's crony and hero, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson, who was in The Little Colonel and The Littlest Rebel, taught her a soft-shoe number, a waltz clog and three tap routines. She learned them without looking at him, by listening to his feet. She appreciates the show-business slogan, "The show must go on" so thoroughly that it serves to repress her reactions to the bumps &; bangs sustained in acting. In Captain January she fell over a lamp and hurt her leg. On another occasion she slammed a door on her hand...
...Antwerp insurance salesman. Few of them spoke English. The difference in tongues did not confuse them in the least. They had met, not to talk, but to play billiards for the world's amateur three-cushion championship, being held for the first time in the U. S. The soft, agreeable click of ivory balls was one language with which all eight were thoroughly familiar...