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...early U. S. journeyman painters. This was to be one of the big features of the Whitney Museum's opening. Mr. Cahill is accused of admiring the Whitney Museum collection sufficiently to imitate the idea, spoil the Whitney Museum's surprise. Critics paid little attention to the Whitney-Cahill tiff but did raise surprised eyebrows in the American Folk Art Gallery. Most of the American primitive paintings seen in Newark, yet to be seen in the Whitney Museum, either were sufficiently well painted to stand on their own merits, or with their old, softened colors had something of the ingenuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Primitives | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

Harvard's first squad eased off after the hard scrimmages of the last few days yesterday and resorted to a drill similar to that gone through the first few days. Coach Horween ordered nothing but fundamental drills and gave his squad a rest in preparation for the tiff with the seconds today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST SQUAD EASES OFF IN YESTERDAY'S PRACTICE | 9/25/1930 | See Source »

...Saturday's tiff with the scrubs the first team showed that the lateral pass was still its greatest threat, since all three touchdowns of the 20 to 0 victory were scored as a direct result of laterals. Mays counted two of them and Forbes one. The team as a whole functioned well and was only halted in its drive to the goal line once by the scrubs. Few men were outstanding but the work of Schereschewsky at full back the while substituting for White was favorably commented on by Coach Horween as was the play of Hageman, the guard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STIFF WEEK AHEAD FOR HORWEEN'S FIRST SQUAD | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Several other minor bruises were in evidence as a result of the morning tiff between the first two elevens. Faxon received an eye injury which will not permit him to get into any hard workout for about a week, while Batchelder and Moushegian were shaken up enough so as to be excused from the afternoon drill. Gildea reported with a leg injury, sustained in the previous day's practice, and also will remain out of harness for about a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALBOT INJURED AS HORWEEN GIVES FIRST SCRIMMAGE | 9/19/1930 | See Source »

This delightful, unfortunate fellow, brooding over the misery which he causes his wife (Vivienne Osborne), finally shoots himself. By that time she is leaning toward a virile magazine writer (Warren Williams) and their host and hostess have settled a domestic tiff which also involved the drunkard's buxom spouse. These people are all members of the so-called "lost generation," and their varied plights are sincerely described even though the host and the writer continually hark back to their Wartime comradeship with enthusiasm of the "You old rhinoceros!" variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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