Word: stooping
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This preamble explained last week's assemblage of objects in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, newly fitted for the occasion with aluminum, steel and micarta walls and black & white glass showcases. A huge red propeller on the Museum stoop keynoted the show. Inside was a glittering confusion of coils, springs, carpet sweepers, kettles, mirrors, ladles, automobile headlights, slide rules. In one corner a water faucet stood on a pedestal. On black velvet was a cluster of dental instruments. There was an array of tubular steel chairs, a number of suspended springs so delicate they responded...
...distance call for his sister in Los Angeles. who turns out to be Hardy's wife. Stupid Charley Chase does not know that he has nearly precipitated a domestic crisis. He plants a fat wallet on the floor, continues to paddle arriving Sons of the Desert when they stoop to pick it up. This trick he considers a "darb." In Sons of the Desert, Charley Chase makes his first appearance in a full length picture. His rôle shows him to less advantage than the series of two-reel Hal Roach comedies which, since 1930, have made...
...forward and said he would be the big backer. Conductor Sokoloffs contract was not renewed. Mrs. Hughes's resignation was accepted. She was set to handing out routine publicity notices. Two guest conductors were tried out: England's Sir Hamilton Harty and Artur Rodzinski, the wavy-haired, stoop-shouldered Pole who for four years had conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
...Majesty the suave scamp explained the Venetian lottery system. This Louis XV promptly introduced into France, with Casanova as manager, later conferred on him a pension which enabled him to visit and seduce elegant ladies in all parts of Europe. Until recently the Third Republic has scorned to stoop to lotteries, but two months ago Finance Minister Bonnet decided he must take the plunge. Last week he put on sale a batch of 2,000,000 lottery tickets, soon to be followed by four similar batches...
...ROOSEVELT Pasadena, Calif. Neither Writer Roosevelt nor Employer Hearst will say how much more or less Writer Roosevelt is receiving than the reported weekly $200. - ED. Straightened Murphy Sirs: "Publisher Murphy . . . straightened his spine by special exercises at the age of 48." (TIME, Sept. 4, p. 14.) No more stooped than 90 % of TIME readers. I have for years sought an exercise that would result in an erect carriage. Arrived at the ripe old age of 40, had thought it now too late to attempt it further. TIME's remark gives encouragement. Possibly just one of Wheat Man Murphy...