Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studio. On the walls of the living room hang Gallatin ancestors back to the 16th Century. Two doors beyond, the studio is devoted entirely to easels, paint brushes, and 20th Century "nonfigurative" sculpture and paintings, including some of Artist Gallatin's recent works. Surrounded by this welter of modern art, there appears a strange blob of fused glass, carefully mounted on a square pedestal of lustrous black stone. "They're saucers," explains Artist Gallatin, "melted in a fire. I found them in the ruins of a summer hotel in Lenox, Mass. The form is most suggestive...
Accessories. Among the welter of engines, models, meteorological balloons, flashing beacons, wind-tunnels, irstruments, parachutes and uniforms, several drew special notice. Displayed for the first time was the world's first single-blade propeller-looking like half an ordinary wood "prop." Sensenich Bros., its makers, claim that it eliminates all vibration, in-.creases speed 25%, improves take-off and climb. Its pitch is automatically controlled by centrifugal force. Another odd prop was offered by Maynard-DiCesare, with the two blades offset at the hub to give greater bite. Edo showed the world's first detachable amphibious gear...
...their civil marriage performed. Oranges hang decoratively from Hague trees in honor of the Royal House of Orange-Nassau and nips of gin are downed by the sturdy Dutch in the frosty air. The royal coach rolls on to the Great Church of Saint James, and the Rev. Dr. Welter, former court chaplain, unites Their Royal Highnesses in Holy Matrimony...
...teaming welter of unfinished developments suggests that Author Hanley's talent is as uncontrollable as it is powerful...
...personality clearly emerges from the welter of detail about people and books and events. Here is Amy Lowell joining the guests at her table after the roast has been removed and, despite having two plates of soup, catching up with them before the meal is over. Here is Amy Lowell, self-described, at an Advocate smoker, "smuggled into an upper chamber, and kept quiet with cigars while they heckled me in true undergraduate fashion. I think I held my own; I tried to." We may be sure that she did. Here is the sincerity, the generosity, the fearlessness, the humor...