Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second blow is the surly reception to Rembrandt's mass portrait of Captain Banning Cocq's conceited officers. This huge, sombre painting, generally called The Night Watch, is now recognized as one of the world's greatest. When it was unveiled, all Amsterdam laughed, both at the officers and at Rembrandt. Even his friends could not understand his modern chiaroscuro. As a result, Rembrandt's art went out of style, himself into bankruptcy...
...dozen or more six-day races in quick succession every season obliges him to become permanently adjusted to living conditions that include ten picnics a day, sleeping four hours out of 24, mostly in 15-minute catnaps, living, in full view and earshot of the crowds that come to watch the race, in a shelter that looks like a flag-draped motorcycle crate and contains one cot for both members of a team, one shelf for all personal belongings, including axle oil. Six-day bicycle riders find their Spartan circumstances beneficial. Many gain weight in races, reduce in the intervals...
...black felt head with a necklace of cinema film and zippers for eyes; a stuffed parrot on a hollow log containing a doll's leg; a teacup, plate and spoon covered entirely with fur; a picture painted on the back of a door from which dangled a dollar watch, a plaster crab and a huge board to which were tacked a mousetrap, a pair of baby shoes, a rubber sponge, clothespins, a stiff collar, pearl necklace, a child's umbrella, a braid of auburn hair and a number of hairpins twisted to form a human face. There were...
...Orleans, drivers who park near the coliseum, midtown auditorium or uptown stadia are pestered by urchins or oldsters who offer to watch cars for a small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police...
...explained that there was no law specifically covering car-watchers. that soft-hearted judges usually let them off in court when they pleaded that they were "only trying to make an honest living." The Board of Aldermen at once took the logical step for cities blighted by the car-watching racket, by drafting amendments to the Traffic Code and City Charter forbidding it. Before they were passed, to City Magistrate Anthony F. Burke was brought 18-year-old Negro John Preston who admitted soliciting to watch cars, pleaded that no one had to accept his services. "That...