Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a norm in U. S. painting, it may best be studied at exhibitions of Manhattan's National Academy and Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy. These perennial shows are more famed for politeness than for pungency, for plethora than for power. There are always innumerable nice landscapes, portraits, still-lifes. Very few of them are incandescent with genius. Interest is in trends and tendencies rather than transcendent individuals. The last National Academy show was ponderously conventional (TIME, Dec. 17). At the 124th annual Pennsylvania Academy exhibition, opened last week, the advanced group was more numerous than in Manhattan...
...Lady of the Orchids. Item: a bedroom at 3:30 a. m. Item: a bed with ermine covers and a plethora of pillows. Item: Peggy Hopkins Joyce in a "creation" better known as a nightgown. Total: a bad French bad bedroom farce...
...meetings there was a plethora of papers read. The papers were cogent, instructive, inspiring; but how effective they would be upon bureaucratic health officers was a common rhetorical question in many a Chicago hotel room...
Parson Faunce's hobbies are: Chinese students, of whom Brown's campus has a plethora; football, of which he knows nothing, but loyally supports; freshman teas, where gangling first year men stand awkward, watching Mrs. W. H. P. F. pour Chinese tea with deft, graceful hands; money-raising, of which he is past master, successful with everybody but Brown Graduate John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who has given Brown but one small building and but half of that. Tycoon Rockefeller would not give the money except with the proviso that the edifice bear his name. So Rockefeller Hall, undergraduate meeting place...
...done in the grandiose manner of Bara-esque sirens. In the early moments of the piece, when the child-lives of the four devils are revealed, two cinemasters, two cinemisses take the parts of the four devils and are notable for their strong resemblance to their adult colleagues. A plethora of film-footage retards the vehicle but never altogether halts...