Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's art critics, sat himself down to test the library's resources. Shooting his cuffs, he called for material on Botticelli's Abundance in the British Museum and the portrait of Alessandro del Borro in Berlin. The telautograph squiggled and in a few minutes stack girls emerged with two folders. Critic Cortissoz' little goatee waggled with pleasure to find attached to an excellent photograph of the Botticelli drawing the date, a list of all the reproductions that have ever been published, all previous owners, all exhibitions at which the original has been shown, along with...
Since a large proportion of the students of the University have already seen "The Barretts" in the film or play version or both, or have at least heard enough about it, we shall add only a few remarks to the ever increasing stack of reviews already in existence. But if there be in the University any people who have not yet seen this picture, we urge them to take this final opportunity. Those who saw Miss Cornell's performance can go without fear that they will be too greatly disappointed, for in the screen version the emphasis has been shifted...
...glorification. Being thus glorified last week was one of the Academy's most distinguished members, Charles Dana Gibson. On the walls of its uptown Manhattan headquarters hung the largest exhibition he has ever given, 162 drawings and paintings dating from an anti-Tammany cartoon of 1888 to a stack of flashily painted portrait sketches and landscapes done this summer at Dark Harbor, Maine...
...last week Mr. Freeman installed himself at the Ritz-Carlton with a telephone and a great stack of U. S. currency at his elbow. Cables streamed in from London with instructions, betting odds. One after another ticket-holders shambled into his office, nervous, undecided, wanting to haggle. Mr. Freeman remained cool, crisp, firm as ever his father had been. "Take it or leave it. That's the price now and we may not be buying tickets on that horse later...
...departure, Parmentier reached Singapore. Said that doughty Dutchman: "I'm in a great hurry." Back at Karachi the Mollisons got off a third time, had engine trouble all the way to Allahabad, were grounded there with a broken oil line. Hopelessly behind in the race was Captain Stack with the newsreel of the start at Mildenhall. Grounded at Marseille, harassed by motor trouble, he announced he would continue as an "amateur...