Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gropper. At bald, velvet-eyed Herman Baron's A.C.A. Gallery last week the best sharpshooter of all U. S. cartoonists had his third show of notable paintings. William Gropper is a short, thick man with dreamy grey eyes and an air of subdued but uninhibited amusement. He paints as he draws for the New Masses, from memory or imagination, as fast as he can and as briefly, with rich reds, yellows and slashing whites. Last summer he spent three months in the West, exhibited the results last week. Among them: Waiting (see cut), a Kansas cow, dying of thirst...
...pipes, unlike those of the modern organ, are all out in the open, visible to the audience. (Pipes in modern organs are, as a rule, enclosed behind shutters; those visible to the audience are often dummy pipes good only to look at.) The Bach facsimile requires from one-third t01/20th the wind pressure demanded by a modern organ, and has a correspondingly limpid quality of tone. Unlike the modern organ it cannot increase or diminish the volume of tone. The "swell" mechanism of the modern organ was invented in England in 1712, was not used in continental Europe until long...
Last week John O'Hara's third novel suggested that he was beginning to close some of the doors. Hope of Heaven has as much violence and as much hard drinking as his earlier books. It has a typical O'Hara hero-a 35-year-old Hollywood writer who sports $35 shoes, $7.50 socks, a $2,200 automobile, and who is in love with a brisk little bookstore clerk. It has its murder, its two ambiguous strangers, its undercurrent of tension accompanying commonplace scenes like luncheons and parties. But all consequential happenings seem to take place...
...will take place tomorrow. The six men receiving the highest number of votes will qualify for the final election to be held on Thursday. Again the voter will select three names and the man receiving the highest number of votes will be President, next highest, Vice-President, and the third will become Secretary-Treasurer...
Second prize went to a team of Arthur B. Gnaedinger, Robert Atwater, John B. Harlow, and Robert L. Wright. George F. Snell ranked third, while John H. Funk won the fourth prize which was contributed by Colonel Apted, one of the judges. The other judges were Dean Hanford and Morris Earle...