Word: rhythmical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city leased the place to a $500,000 private corporation which undertook to make it a "place for the fashionable and fastidious." The rental was $8,500 per year. The corporation sold the hat-check privilege alone for $12,000. Joseph Urban was hired to decorate the interior in rhythmic maroons and greens. A black glass ceiling was placed over the ballroom. A "continental atmosphere" was evoked. Last week the Casino was opened to 600 special guests carefully culled from the Social Register by Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., Board Chairman of the corporation and social arbiter...
...magnificent representation of the American eagle sillrouetter, against the flag. Behind the soldiers can be made out a conventionalized representation of the sea. Although the faces are individualized and represent the finest types of American youth, the columnar arrangement of the figures gives the composition the broad, rhythmic effect of a Byzantine mozaic...
LITANY OF WASHINGTON STREET-Vachel Lindsay-Macmillan ($3). A curious potpourri of U. S. lore, in rhythmic U. S. language, which ranks Walt Whitman with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln as a patriot, and proposes to celebrate his birthday (May 31) "with new great maypole dances...
...alone. Fanatically religious (mostly "wash-foot" Baptists), they viewed organized labor as Communism, and Communism, they were told, turned people against God. They had no fear of Negro competition in the mills because they knew that the blackamoor, inefficient at best with machinery, was lulled to sleep by its rhythmic motion (soporific hypnotism). But now they are no longer "poor white trash." They have begun to taste the power of combined action, to strike for what they want...
...Sloan (president of the Society) and Claggett Wilson were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon by Madeline S. Pereny was a rhythmic arrangement of four Negro dancers, four Negro cymbal players and a flautist, all under a glowing moon...