Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattanites were interested but not immediately ecstatic. Though the exhibition was boldly billed "Art of Tomorrow" to outbid the Museum of Modern Art's "Art in Our Time," a few critics meanly suggested that it was actually art of the past. Curator Hilla Rebay, her blue eyes ablaze, rose to this with two good observations and one transcendental line...
Main job of a State university president is to handle his State Legislature. Big, blond, booming Robert Gordon Sproul, 48, an ambitious executive and politician-president of the University of California, who recently turned down a $50,000 bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not the world's best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics...
...rolling power plant is 500 new engines a year; at this rate, barely a dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that Baldwin got what has been its normal 40% share of such a windfall, that its share was all for steam power (though it makes Diesels, too) at $150,000 an engine, its locomotive sales on New Deal account would be $30,000,000 a year...
Unmarried (Paramount) will be a titillating title on U. S. cinemarquees, though the picture fails to sparkle on the screen. A new once-over of an old Paramount property about a nightclubstress, a prizefighter and a waif, it features slumbery-eyed Helen Twelvetrees and Western Star Buck Jones without his horse, Silver. Buck without Silver is all ham and no eggs...
...Though this six-foot, bearded, spinsterish Englishman never married, he was fortunate in the young men on whom he sometimes girlishly innocent crushes. Frank Lushington became an important judge. Chichester Fortescue (Lear liked to write his name "40scue") became Lord Carlingford. Thomas George Baring became the Earl of Northbrook and Viceroy of India. Evelyn Baring became the Earl of Cromer, the "Maker of Modern Egypt." To these playful satraps of the expanding British Empire, Lear liked to write such pre-Joycean letters as this one to Evelyn Baring...