Word: tenements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department of Justice Building in Washington last week another fresco panel was being finished in the lobby adjoining the Attorney General's office. The work of George Biddle, it boasted the longest title of any Government mural: The Sweatshop and Tenement of Yesterday Can Be the Life Planned with Justice of Tomorrow. In it are the figures of dozens of faithful minors in the New Deal. The mural's "ideal workman" has the face of Artist Biddle's brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross...
Late yesterday it crawled into a hole on the top of a tenement house inhabited by the Medical School maids, whence it worked its way in between the wall and the plaster. Once it was cornered Dr. Walter shoved a pillow dripping with ether into the hole and at last the mandril gave up the struggle and was retrieved with a boathook amid the applause of all the budding obstetricians...
...this he catches all the bustle of the busy port with its many types of boats, the dinginess of the smoky atmosphere through which the sun burns with a yellow glow, and the towering height of the skyscrapers. In a "Winter Scene" he portrays the dreariness of a tenement district when everything is covered with grey sooty snow. The most forceful picture of all is a war scene showing three men in the foreground, the first of whom is lieing on the ground with a huge bloody wound, while the second is about to drive a bayonet through the back...
...masterpiece of the collection is the drawing, "Once Upon A Time." It is a simple sketch of a woman, aged and wrinkled by care and hard work, sitting with hands folded in her lap in a bare tenement room which looks out upon factories and smokestacks. Her face has a far-away expression and every detail of it and of her eyes are so well and carefully done that it is almost possible to see the nearly-forgotten happy memories which are thronging her brain. There are indeed few artists today who could equal the feeling and pathos of this...
Porgy and Bess, so named to prevent prospective customers from regarding it as a revival of the play, begins with droning "Do-doo-da's" interspersed with "wawa, wa-wa." Catfish Row will be on view, with its dilapidated tenement fronts, its old street lamps, its "Gawd-fearin women" and its "Gawd-damnin' men.'' As in the play, the crippled beggar Porgy drives his ribby goat, hunched in a cart made of packing box labeled "Wild Rose Soap, Pure & Fragrant." The whoring Bess again finds shelter and love with Porgy after the bullying Crown commits his drunken murder...