Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antiquary. Brutus and the Horatii were his idols; he painted them to resemble the antique sculpture he admired, posturing naked and grand in a cool world. To complaints about la nudité de mes héros, David replied simply and smugly that they had always been represented that way in the Golden...
...last week had been gathered from all over France, from Belgium, and Manhattan. To prepare for the show, experts had spent almost a year cleaning the dun varnish from French canvases, restoring to them the clear bright colors David had intended. His pen-drawing of Marie-Antoinette on her way to the guillotine, which David was cool enough and history-minded enough to sketch on the spot, was an unassuming example of his naturally incisive draftsmanship and genius for portraiture...
Most bankers agree that a more effective way to curb credit is for the Federal Reserve Board to raise the percentage of deposits which member banks are required to keep in reserve, thus limiting the amount available for loans. But FRB, fearful of the effect on the sensitive credit structure, was reluctant to raise reserve requirements. With curbs on installment buying going into effect next month, FRB thought it would "wait and see" before making further moves...
Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy once said: "I dream all the time. It's the only way to keep awake." Last week he got a dream-job: all the designing (from soap wrappers to retail stores) for one of the world's great industrial empires, Britain's 500-company, globe-girdling Unilever...
Designer Loewy, 52, has come a long way since he landed in New York, at 27. He has streamlined automobiles (the old Hupmobile, the present Studebaker), railroad locomotives, club cars and coaches (for the Pennsylvania and the Monon), ships (the Matson line's Lurline), airplane interiors (Constellations), fountain pens (Eversharp), supermarkets (California's "Lucky" chain), department stores (Houston's new windowless' $12,000,000 Foley Bros...