Word: traced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike any previous Hasty Pudding show, the action will not be laid at Harvard. Feeling that "variety is the spice of life," McKennan and his committee decided to trace instead the vagaries of some Sons of the Founder after they had gone forth in the world...
...Watteau's Jupiter and Antiopc, from the Louvre. ¶ Mme Vigee Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette, lent by Edward J. Berwind. Every number in the list shone with that French gaiety which 20th Century Parisians have lost. Not even in the court portraits was there a trace of the stolid respectability of a Gainsborough or a Reynolds. In not one of the French masters was there a trace of the social responsibility of a Hogarth...
...that Frenchman's own style but also a history of Impressionism. Starting with the grey, rather sharply painted Hyde Park, London (1870) and the blue and bright Canotiers à Argenteuil, done in 1875 in a technique that now seems more modern than his later work, the canvases trace Monet's growing absorption in sunlight and the interplay of colors, down to one of his famed arrangements of water lilies in a misty light, painted in 1899 when he seemed to have lost all interest in form as such...
...largely through a 2?-per-cubic-yard tribute which he, as president of the New Orleans Levee Board, exacted from dredging contractors. The defense maintained that these payments were simply political contributions which passed through Shushan's hands as a collector for the Long machine. The Government traced large sums of Defendant Shushan's "political" income to personal expenditures, while the defense could trace only $44,000 to the Long treasury...
Strip Girl (by Henry Rosendahl; L. Lawrence Weber, producer) contains some of the toughest talk heard on the Broadway stage this season, a trace of burlesque atmosphere, a strip queen (Mayo, Methot) who takes pride in her work, a loose, undigested story in 23 scenes, practically nothing else...