Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Paris, 100 professional dancers unionized themselves against "gigolos" who, by their "insidious manners" and second-rate dancing, have discredited the profession. Hereafter at public halls, a dancer must have a union card to be allowed to lead rich ladies onto the floor at 100 francs per dance.
In Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben...
Wealthy collectors of art are usually old men who, upon retiring from business, find little to do. In Washington, D. C., there is, however, a young man who is devoting his life to picture collecting and propaganda. He is Duncan Phillips, tall, slender son of the late Major D. Clinch...
When he graduated from Yale (1908) Duncan Phillips had more literary than esthetic interest. As a child he had lived in gloomy Pittsburgh where his father's house was hung with murky landscapes of the Hudson River School in massive, gilded frames. Small Phillips decided he disliked pictures. After...
Last fortnight Duncan Phillips published for the first time a magazine named Art and Understanding. It is hereafter to appear twice a year. Called "A Phillips Publication," and written for the most part by the publisher himself, its illustrations are from canvases in the Phillips Gallery. There are also reprinted...