Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sometime acrobat, magician, horse thief, highwayman, circus-man, poet, sculptor, fomenter of disturbances in the Far East and superb Baron Munchausen." So reads a placard in the New Art Gallery, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, where Merton Clivette, 79, is having his first one-man show of paintings, his first artistic renown at all, but enough of it now to make one of the most amazing stories in the annals of art. Within three days from the opening of his exhibit, 30 paintings had last week been sold, at prices ranging from $200 to $2,000, and famed sculptors Jo Davidson...
...applaud the terse descriptions of air action, heavily salted with realism and cynicism. They will admire Clayton Knight's sketches of havoc-ridden skies. They will remember the writer as they remember other men in his pages-big "Ros" Fuller, Clarence Fry, John Goad, "Hobey" Baker, "Micky" Mannock, superb Major Bishop (and his wife) and Pilot Springs, who flew with milk of magnesia in one pocket, gin in the other...
...seem parts of a never ending tapestry. Every gesture made upon the stage, and every inflection, beckons the audiences' interest on. Mannequins and dandys, cardinal and king, jeweler and soldier, lover and lady-in-waiting make their bows and their requests and are dismissed. Here, if ever, Sorel is superb...
...years of incessant toil, squeezed dry and cast aside, no good for anything but this sideshow. Case 56 is pretty: 'chuckle-voiced, hat-doffing Charlie the Iceman.' Now 'Charlie's on the shelf. Old and sick and done for. And forgotten.' Listen to Gene Tunney himself on the superb specimen in case 46: Mr. and Mrs. Pat Malloy, 74 years old, worked all their lives, k.o.'d by a taxicab going home from work. Now 'the grey end. . . . They are slaves of a social system. . . . Nothing they did or neglected to do was the cause of their destitution.' (Tunney will...
...galleries, nor stand enrapt before a masterpiece, but he did appreciate loveliness?a rose, a stunning woman, a birch tree, a sunset. . . When in romantic and florid terms he was wont to tell of the dream [of a ducal estate in Austria he thought of buying, complete with 'superb art gallery'] ... he always saved the art gallery for the climax, and when he came to that his voice would take on a note almost of reverence as he told of the wonderful gallery and the priceless masterpieces...