Word: whacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Art Students League dusted out its classrooms for the opening of the fall semester last week, a spry, round-faced oldster with a head as bald as a pumpkin prepared for another whack at the job he had been doing year in & year out for the past 43 years: teaching U.S. artists how to draw the human figure. The oldster's name, as unfamiliar to the general public as it is familiar to practically every artist in the U.S., was George Brant Bridgman. Teacher Bridgman has good reason to take his teaching duties seriously. Some...
...piece of second-or third-rate art looking for a first-rate controversy." This critical whack, laid on last week by New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, precipitated the loudest Manhattan art squabble since Frederick MacMonnies' famed statue of Civic Virtue ("the Fat Boy") was exiled to a suburban square. The mayor referred to a slab-limbed plaster aviator, titled Wings for Victory, by Sculptor Thomas Lo Medico (see cut). Winner of a $1,000 prize in an Artists for Victory Inc. competition, the aviator, in a 24-ft. copy, was to have towered over the Fifth Avenue...
...fashion of the times in colleges like Harvard to speculate upon the future of a liberal education beneath the pressure of a specialized society. The war, of course, has intensified such speculation. President Conant, ex-Dean Donham, numerous other authorities and experts, and Mrs. Roosevelt have taken a whack at the problem. One of the most recent, as well as one of the best whacks, was taken by the Student Council Committee on Curriculum and Tenure in yesterday's report. Yet from all these source a common danger begins to become apparent. The battle of words for "the preservation...
...title from New Orleans Blues to Blues in the Night. Since November, 14 recordings of Blues in the Night have sold a million-odd copies. To sing it from start to finish is a tricky job for an amateur, but almost any man in the street can take a whack at the lines...
Grace Moore and Tenor Charles Kullman flung themselves about in The Love of Three Kings in San Francisco, collided with a whack. Her shoulder dislocated, Miss Moore shortly met a stage death at the hands of Basso Ezio Pinza, who choked her with vigor, suffered deep scratches on his hands and arms...