Word: wallness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were even a small bronze figure and four photographs taken by Degas. To make the show a success, the Louvre, greatest art museum in the world, magnanimously postponed its own projected Degas show, lent three important canvases. These with the rest of the borrowed works put something on the wall for every type of art lover. In portraits there was the sensitive picture of the artist's young brother, Achille, as a gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there was the vividly painted False Start lent by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. For print collectors there...
...darkest interpretation. In London, where "hot money" is called "funk money" and any interference with international trading is deplored, a thoughtful broker declared: "It appears that Mr. Roosevelt once more is striving to achieve a reputable objective without regard to its effect on the world situation." In Wall Street a feeble attempt was made to brush the problem aside on the ground that part of what appeared to be foreign investment was in fact buying by U. S. citizens through foreign banking houses, whose margins are lower than those demanded in the U. S. But discussed with perfect seriousness...
...packing house put through a recapitalization plan providing, among other things, for the payment of $12,600,000 in dividend arrears, not in cash but in stock. The payment was accepted as a satisfactory settlement by the owners of 99% of the shares affected. Among the holdouts was a Wall Streeter named Joseph Keller, who figured that if back dividends were to be paid at all he was entitled to hard cash, $21.25 on each of his 500 Class A shares. Hiring a smart Manhattan lawyer named Abraham L. Pomerantz, he filed suit in Delaware, where Wilson & Co. was incorporated...
...ancient civilization, from which more than 2,400 years ago Darius and his son Xerxes ruled the greatest empire their world had seen. Unearthing palace buildings on the quarter-mile-long artificial terrace, Dr. Erich F. Schmidt of Chicago's Oriental Institute came upon two magnificent pieces of wall sculpture, each 20 ft. long. They depicted the same scene, a royal audience, as viewed from right and left. Xerxes stands behind Darius, seated in an ornate chair. Their figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize. A petitioner, slightly bowed, holds his hand to his mouth "in a gesture...
...heirlooms of the earth, historical manuscripts lie hidden like nuggets in the coarse ore of family possessions. They seem to be everywhere except where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park, Fla., far from where that tormented...