Word: tate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matisse's charm lies chiefly in the skill with which he achieves the freshness of a sketch in his finished paintings. This fact is clearly brought home to the spectator as he looks at the "Tate de Femme" hung over the charcoal drawing of "La Vase de Chine" in this exhibit...
...Author. Andrew Nelson Lytle is one of the group of young literary Southerners (others: Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Lyle Lanier) which is trying to organize an agrarian movement in the South. Author Lytle lives on a farm in north Alabama. Bedford Forrest is his first book...
...Last week Sir Joseph was reported to have commissioned Manhattan Architect John Russell Pope to design the $250,000 wing he is giving to London's famed Tate Gallery to house sculptures and watercolors...
...past three years Treasury Department chemists-whose duty it was to denature tax-free industrial alcohol long before Prohibition-have been busy seeking a substitute for wood alcohol. Alco-tate, discovered by no one man, is a by-product of cracked California petroleum. Its formula is a Treasury secret. But Director Doran is confident that it can not be precipitated from or distilled out of grain alcohol. About Jan. 1 it will go into...
...Dallas, fortnight ago, citizens went to the polls and voted to have a city manager instead of their picturesque Mayor J. Waddy ("Hot Dog") Tate. Thus on May 1 they will join Cleveland, Cincinnati, Rochester (N. Y.), and 392 managerized U. S. cities where at present there is no major civic scandal. Grinning Mayor Tate was famed for his vote-getting campaign stunt of free hotdogs, promises of free donkeyrides for children, free City Hall sitting for bums, free potted plants for funerals. Long had he fought the manager-movement, contending that under such a system the Plain People...