Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solid ground of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye" (Wordsworth) is the perpetual slogan on the front cover of Nature, which Writer H. G. Wells has called "one of the best newspapers in the world." A weekly published in London, Nature is an international clearing house for major scientific research, the most famed scientific journal in existence. Scientists all over the world grab copies of Nature from the postman much as cowboys grab for their favorite pulps...
...reticent, solid man who loved painting and fishing and studied little else, Glackens won the respect of several schools and generations. Born in Philadelphia, he began his career as an illustrator for Philadelphia newspapers. McClure's Magazine sent him to Cuba to sketch the Spanish-American War, as Harper's had sent Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. In toughness, gaiety and all-round draftsmanship, his illustrations, of which the Whitney last week exhibited 35, stood with those of his most gifted Realist contemporaries, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Luks...
...group of travelers that might have been chosen by a cinema director. They numbered 13. Main characters were a sophisticated Manhattan night-club songstress, an aloof British movie actress, an equerry to the Duke of Gloucester, a fun-loving mademoiselle from Paris, a Connecticut Yankee. There were also three solid businessmen, extras...
Striking photographers snapped the Guild's solid picket line in front of the Hearst Building (see cut), the bleeding head of Organizer Charles Cain as he and seven other Guilders were roughed up and carted off to a police station, Hearst trucks as they backed up to the line and kept their motors running. Strikers promptly dubbed handsome Publisher Merrill C. ("Babe") Meigs of the American "Monoxide Meigs." Two pickets put on gas masks. Last January the Chicago Hearst management and the Guild signed a one-year contract. Now pending are over 60 charges of contract violations preferred...
...spirit of stillness, solitude, and melancholy is predominant in the church scenes. Blues and greens skillfully blended and interwoven in the "Church at Jacona" give a weird effect, especially as the solid form of the structure is almost lost in a hazy smothering of paint. Again in "Jacona Houses" the mood is melancholy, sombre, and weird, intensified by dark tones of paint, except for a splash of bluish white breaking out of the gloom on the right side of the picture...