Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parodies the first thing to consider is make-up. This issue, like its predecessors, attains perfection in this respect. The cover, except for the Pegasus that has replaced the Phoenix, looks like the real McCoy. There is a brief resume of the contents and a startling picture of the latest "Wunderkind", to whom the feature article is devoted...
...Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn mustachios and elegantly grasping a white kid glove and a pint of bitters in his right hand...
...probably a good thing for Renoir that before he was 18 he spent several years painting china for a Paris firm. A strong sense of how well clear colors looked on a light ground kept his later painting from dissolving into the atmospheric ultimates of the Impressionists, though he became as sensitive as any of them to the color effects of sunlight. When Painting china kept his color from dissolving. Renoir painted the summer gaiety of his friends he filled his canvas with flowing light and color, composed contented, decorous figures moving softly, if at all. Three of his best...
...After that, I don't know what happened. ... I suddenly looked around and there was Bill Wright, the sweetest man that God ever made, lying on the sidewalk, all bloodied. . . . They took us over to the police station. And then I want to tell you that the sweetest thing that ever has happened in my life happened right then. I looked up and there was Sherman Billingsley and Mac from '21' standing there with $5,000 cash just in case we needed...
...from Greenfield. Nevertheless, he was charged with assault with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story was absurd. Said he darkly: "I think I get the idea of this thing, but the less said about it the better...