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...know what your excuse is for running that awful stuff. . . . You say that is free speech. . . . Well, I'll bet you if you knew what your readers really think of Pegler, you'd drop him like a hot stove lid. If you would put the matter to a vote...
...studio painter, Mount toured the countryside in a horse-drawn contraption of his own invention. It was a studio on wheels, equipped with a glass window, stove, ventilator and skylight. In beard and broadcloth, the magnificently free occupant of this vehicle roamed the lanes of Suffolk County proving to his own satisfaction that a pig was more paintable than a princess...
...story. The place was a shambles. The floors were spattered with broken window panes and flakes of paint from the wall. The radiators and all 15 toilets were frozen. Down in the laundry room, the 22 students, blue-skinned, dirty, tattered and hungry, were huddled around a pot-bellied stove. One 13-year-old had a leg broken in two places...
...Three men did not meet last week, but the Big Three nations began their conferences. First in London with the British, then in Paris with the French, emissaries of President Roosevelt discussed background problems of the big meeting. The cooks were standing in front of the stove and the world was left to guess what was cooking...
Against the walls were stacked scores of the most controversial paintings in the world. The plotters sat in an uncubistic circle. As their breath congealed in the frigid studio air (which Picasso's tall, elegant stove failed to thaw), a multi-planed, reclining nude regarded them with an angular...