Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Craftsmanship
...plain truth is that modern craftsmanship, with all its noise and ugliness, is giving food, clothing, warmth and interest to millions who otherwise must die. In all honesty let us recognize that we live on craftsmanship in its modern form." The motor, aviation; chemical, electrical industries all need and use scientific research. But British factories are sluggards in their support of science; not so U. S. factories...
...copy of the newsmagazine for July 2, 1928. On page 25 you have published a slanderous story and coupled my name with it, which is absolutely false. I can only conclude that you are thinking of one Pat Smith of Bridgeport, Conn., who has had the audacity to use my name and of whom I know nothing except what the newspapers report. There is absolutely no connection between him and my family, and so far as I know he is not a Gipsy...
...blind, sharp ears are given and sensitive fingers; those who cannot hear must use their eyes to make up for being deaf. Great musicians have been deaf; to sculptors, lack of hearing should surely prove no handicap. Thus, Mrs. Louise Wilder, deaf and somewhat famed sculptor of babies, last week indicated some of the advantages which she has derived from her deficiency. "Having been deaf for fourteen years I have learned to work entirely by myself never hearing the disturbing noises that bother so many artists in big cities. While others must go to the country for solitude, I have...
...Augustus John, a triple allegiance with fashionable public, ultra-modernists and academicians. It is undeniable that no U. S. artist is included among the world's most popular portrait painters. Thirty years ago, Eastman Johnson and Daniel Huntington, painters of highly unequal merit, were accustomed to use their brushes, as though they had been valets' whiskbrooms, upon the handsome exteriors of fashionable people in Manhattan and elsewhere. Knoedler's Gallery is largely responsible for the change. Since the time when its senior partner began to import the work of foreign celebrities, native workmanship became less socially desirable...