Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While studying under Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, Manhattan Artist Elizabeth Ely de Vescovi Whitman met a Mexican chemist, Gonzalez de la Vega, founder of the faculty of chemical sciences at the University of Mexico, who shared her interest in experiments at keeping frescoes fresh. First sign of success in their collaboration came when they used a spray of glycerine, lime, marble dust and water. But no matter how little glycerine they used it would appear later in small beads on the surface of the plaster. Then they tried butyl alcohol (butanol) with the same ingredients. This worked, but made...
...prostitutes. From their talk Bertha picked up her three S's: sex, strikes, socialism. Included in her haphazard schooling were two years during the War in an Arkansas cooperative colony run by radicals and conscientious objectors, where she read William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Zola. When her mother came back from an anti-War tour with a young Irish poet in tow, they all went to Seattle, where Bertha's mother entered the University of Washington. There Bertha, now 16 and 160 lb., "like a truck horse," had her first lover. She took to the road, fell...
...Charles L. Moore; Arthur Oakes, III; George F. Roberts; John A. Roosevelt; Renouf Russell; David W. Shean, Jr.; Carl Shirley; Donald C. Sleeper; John B. Stevens; Hobert C. Stuart; Robert Sullivan; John N. Thorne, Jr.; George F. Tyler, Jr.; Caspar W. Weinberger; Adoniram J. Wells, Jr.; Robert T. Whitman; Edward F. Whitney; and Crocker Wight...
Since Walt Whitman's Song of the Open Road many a U. S. writer has attempted a modern sequel to that ringing inventory of the U. S. scene. Bravest of these attempts have come from such contemporary novelists as John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe. To the lesser footnotes Novelist Nathan Asch (The Office, Pay Day) this week added his own modestly tentative, well-written account of what the U. S. means after a four-month bus trip...
Robet C. Stuart, Robert Sullivan John N. Thorne, Jr., George F. Tyler, Jr., Caspar W. Weinberger, A. Judson Wells, Jr., Robert T. Whitman, Edward F. Whitney, and Crocker Wight...