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...Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks, tour official who had proudly led the flyers into his native state, they took six bottles of liquor and $30 in fines. From the cushion in George Haldeman's Bellanca Pacemaker they extracted a half-case of beer. In short order the agents collected a washtub full of liquor, while late arrivals, grasping the situation at sight, hurled bottles right & left before their planes could be searched. Among 18 flyers competing for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy, the Ford tri-motor piloted by Lieut. Harry Russell led by 1,763 points. Second was the Waco...
Other art journals inquired. In response other masterpieces dripped from the brush of Jerdanowitsch. One showed a jet-black Negress at a washtub, with socks hanging on a clothes line overhead. Displayed at the No-Jury Exhibition (Marshall Field's, 1926) under the title "Aspiration," it was selected out of 480 others for special praise and reproduction by the Art World of Chicago. Wrote Lena McCauley, art critic of the Chicago Evening Post: "It is a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy with...
...much to say about technique, for over all the able and even powerful work of Mr. Inness Jr. is the shadow of the man who signed his pictures "Inness." "My first memory of my father," George Inness Jr. used to say, "is the vision of him painting a washtub. . . ." There was in that statement perhaps more vision than memory, for Artist Inness spent little time adorning laundry utensils. Even the stories about his hard-pressed boyhood-how he cut off a cat's tail to get his first paintbrush-are somewhat fanciful. He was poor. He was never indigent...
Birth Control. ". . . .Picture a nocturnal scene between a male of the lower stratum, somewhat stimulated by alcohol, and the feminine partner of his misery, weary after a day at the washtub or scrubbing the halls of an apartment house. The mental states of the two, it must be plain, are hardly such as to lead them to pause for consideration . . . of the economic problems of the 21st century...
...pound watermelon, perambulating in a tin washtub was sighted by railroad men at Fitchburg, Mass. They told reporters. Agog at its clearing papers, which named President Coolidge as the addressee, the reporters heralded by wire the approach to White Court of the ponderous aqueous gourd. ķAt White Court the President presented Lieut. Reginald de Noyes Thomas, of Boston and Squantum, Mass., with the Herbert Schiff Memorial trophy for having been aloft last year 583 hours "without serious accident," longer than any other naval airman...