Word: ties
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris last week, at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg in the fashionable Rue La Boétie, 33 small oils-on-canvas were making the art news of the season. With one exception they were still-lifes of candles and flowers, fruits and mandolins, pitchers and bird cages, ox skulls and oil lamps, knives, forks figurines and doves. Had these objects been painted with the luscious realism of a soup advertisement, the pictures would not have been at Rosenberg's, nor would they have interested any of the people there. Yet if there was one thing these doodles, lozenges, swabs...
...true that his studio and his chateau are jammed full of canvases which he will not sell. Even so, Dealers Rosenberg, et al., have occasionally been so hard put to it to keep from being flooded with Picassos that a wit once suggested, as a solution, a tie-up with the Citroen (Ford of France) Motor Company: "A Picasso with every Citroen...
...Diaghilev ballet, Olga Koklova, and found himself faced with the unusual demand for a Russian-Orthodox Church marriage. In 1918 the marriage took place in Paris, and the Picassos moved into the two top floors of a heavy, expensive, Second Empire house in the Rue La Boétie...
...Crimson Jayvees jumped into the lead in the early stages of the game but were unable to hold it in the second half. Moving along rapidly after a 20 to 20 tie at halftime, the Newport boys piled up a large margin which the Woodmen could not overcome. Bill McSweeney and Fran Simpson paced the Crimson attack with nine and eight points respectively, but Campbell of the visitors stole top scoring honors with nine baskets...
...veteran Commentator John B. (for Bright) Kennedy in a 192-seat theatre 50 stories up in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The nonsense part is a studio audience participation quizz game called "quixie-doodles" conducted by Comic Bob Hawks. Sample: "Could a baseball game end in a 6-6 tie without a man touching first base?" Answer: "Yes, if the game was played between two girl teams." The sense part is a weekly question of public importance, debated earnestly before the microphone and then put before radio listeners at large...