Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Reau, author of sections of Michel's "Histoire de L'Art" will deliver an illustrated lecture on contemporary French Sculpture under the joint auspices of The Alliance Francaise and the Fogg Art Museum, at The Museum on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. M. Reau has had a wide experience in the field of sculpture and related arts and besides being at one time professor of sculpture at the Ecole du Louvre, was a former editor of the Gazette des Beaux Arts. The public is cordially invited to attend his talk in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum...
Four men sat around a long conference table in a Manhattan publisher's office one day last week, registering varying degrees of pleasure. Large, dapper Publisher Richard Roy Smith beamed. Wide-eyed Critic George Jean Nathan puffed contentedly on a cigar. Ernest Boyd lolled crosslegged, grinning through his messianic beard. Hulking Theodore Dreiser looked less glum than usual. All had just learned that the first monthly issue of The American Spectator ("A Literary Newspaper") published by Mr. Smith and edited by the three writers (plus James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill) had sold out its entire edition...
...Spectator is a four-page sheet of heavy, uncoated stock the size of a newspaper, printed in 5 wide columns. It carries no illustrations, thus far no advertising, sells for 10?. Its purpose: "... to offer a medium for the truly valuable and adventurous in thought." Its criteria: ''clarity, vigor, humor . . . real knowledge and a decided point of view." The idea was George Jean Nathan's. From his long experience with monthly magazines, notably Smart Set and American Mercury, he had found "that it is impossible to get enough good copy each month to fill. . . . [The editor...
...Saturday's 14-0 upset was the lack of spirit, and the poor coordination which the team displayed against the Bears' unified teamwork. The Crimson's serial attack was also lamentably weak, with only two passes completed out of the dozen attempted. Time after time the ball went spinning wide of the mark when a successful pass would have stemmed the Brown tide...
...Vagabond knows, three-hundred-and-five feed long, one-hundred-and-thirteen feet wide, and the tower rises one-hundred-and-ninety feet above the Delta, but he is not appalled by that. It was on this Delta that Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their...