Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cynosure of all eyes was an improvised sculptural group at the entrance, consisting of a broken-down closed car in which a skeleton sat, warm and dry, at the driver's wheel while in the back seat a semi-nude manikin was planted among flourishing weeds, a heavy shower pouring down on her golden hair. Once past this cryptic collection, visitors entered a long corridor lined with completely nude manikins, masked with bird cages, sprouting electric light bulbs, spotted here and there with snails, pins, bats and magnets. Then each visitor was handed a free flashlight and ushered into...
That Brasher's original paintings might be together forever, he and Nephew Philip, the artist's business aid, negotiated an agreement with Connecticut's State Park & Forest Commission in 1934: Brasher would give his paintings; the State would within two years build a wheel-shaped gallery for them in Kent Falls State Park. Month ago, the museum not having been built according to the agreement, Philip Brasher drove to Hartford, declared the paintings forfeit to the artist. Few days later he & wife trundled them down to Washington, where this week, in the National Geographic's large...
...works had been performed off & on in Germany, the French, among whom he spent his most productive years, had ignored him. In 1899 Delius himself arranged a concert in London; in 1929 Sir Thomas Beecham had organized a six-day Delius Festival, which the composer attended in a wheel chair. But his opera, Koanga, had waited more than 35 years for its British premiere. His masterpieces, the Mass of Life and the opera, A Village Romeo and Juliet, had received only a half-dozen hearings, none at all outside Central Europe and London...
...clock at Vassar, but there is group of enterprising young things have gone into the business of returning books for a penny apiece. They have a box in the hall of each dormitory where you dump the book and leave a penny in the slot, then they wheel a cart around and pick up the boxes and take them to the library...
...Aafje had been out of San Pedro but a few hours, according to the survivors' stories, when Jack Morgan swaggered out to the wheel, began an argument with Dwight Faulding. When Morgan pulled a gun, Dwight Faulding ran for his. But Jack Morgan's blazed first. "Then Jack," his young wife related, "began to act just like a madman." Taking command, he forced his frightened companions into their cabins, steered south. When Elsie Berdan protested Morgan's advances, she got a clout on the head...