Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statements at this time by Governor Earle on political issues are certain to attract widespread attention in view of the fact that he has been mentioned frequently as the possible nominee of the Democratic Party in 1940 should President Roosevelt decline to run for a third term. Liberty's poll of newspaper editors considered him as second only to Roosevelt as the most likely man to be elected...
Clackety-clack, clackety-clack! The train was moaning down the line now, headed for New London. They fairly sailed past the little old abandoned way-stations on the line, streaking into Connecticut and full view of the Sound. The water looked lovely today, all blue, with silver around the edges. From Stonington he looked across to Fishers Island, saw the great clubhouse standing out like a white elephant on the opposite shore. That was the house where they'd moved that girls' school a few years ago after its fire. It must be nice to be a schoolgirl, he thought...
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Allston's friend and pupil, whose fame for inventing the telegraph has obscured his gifts as an artist. One of the finest landscapes on display was Morse's View From Apple Hill, Cooperstown, New York, a long, radiant vista of Lake Otsego...
...paint. In probably the first period of French history when a painter could win repute without one sniff at an art school, Artist Tal-Coät has forged ahead slowly, was adjudged by Manhattaniles last week to be very near the real McCoy. The paintings on view were mostly done before his first successful Paris exhibition a year ago: small landscapes and still-lifes, drawn to look like what they are supposed to be, but designed in dark tone patterns as abstract as anything surrealist. Against straight surrealism Artist Tal-Coät has set his face. Says...
...husband, who appeared disappointingly weak, was having difficulty keeping her fur cost, which he carried, off the ground. Further, he displayed what appeared to be an unhealthy interest in the library's collection of ballet works. Mrs.Gregory took a more practical view of things and requested a list of all the books on Sarawak that the library had. Later in the day attendants sent the list to her suite at the Copley...