Word: tuscan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen or so first-class women fencers in the U. S. are not famed, but they are exceedingly well known to each other. For the past several months they have been following with surprise and concern the career of the latest addition to their minute number-Mrs. Bela de Tuscan of Detroit. Married to Detroit's best fencing master, trained as a dancer until her husband persuaded her to take up foils three years ago, Mrs. de Tuscan made sensational headway in the Olympic tryouts that have been going on all winter. Her colleagues could hardly wait...
...early in the morning. Work begins with pointing-machines, chisels, mallets, electric drills and the casting foundry. As many as 100 men are sometimes employed. In old clothes and square paper caps, the five brothers hammer and laugh, shout and sing arias from opera. At noon Attilio or a "Tuscan gentlewoman" named Clementina cooks the roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks the Vesuvian wine and the five & guests sit down for a noisy, two-hour meal. Horatio usually washes the dishes afterward. All talk well, laugh easily. Frequent guests at these Renaissance meals are New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia...
...decided that nothing would be more fitting for the central rotunda than a heroic statue of the Father of His Country. For this they got Congress to vote $5,000, and commissioned U. S. Sculptor Horatio Greenough to carve the figure. Sculptor Greenough promptly went off to the soft Tuscan air of Florence, Italy, where he rented a large studio, enlarged it further, secured a huge block of Carrara marble, sharpened his chisels, and went to work...
Edith Wharton lets one of her characters say: "I'm rather in a difficulty about you American novelists. Your opportunity's so immense, and . . . well, you always seem to write either about princesses in Tuscan villas, or about gaunt young men with a ten-word vocabularly who spend their lives sweating and hauling wood. Haven't you got any subject between the two?" The Gods Arrive, like all Wharton novels, is a pat answer to this petulant query: its people and problems are U. S. middleclass...
...Rome. Almost all recent winners of the Prix de Rome have painted in the manner of Eugene Francis Savage. Finding little in their own time to interest them, "Little Savages" paint greenish, many-muscled nudes in extravagant attitudes before Italianate backgrounds of rolling hills, almond blossoms, firmly white Tuscan oxen...