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...recent weeks they have been hit with a one-two punch that leaves them wondering where to turn next. First, on Dec. 5, the waters of the Meramec swept through the town in the worst flood in Times Beach's history. The town, which sprang up in the 1920s as a summer resort and later became a permanent working-class community, is now a picture of near desolation. A muddy brown film coats the small clapboard houses and trailer homes, many of which are ripped apart. Stoves and pieces of carpet sit in yards. Piles of trash and decaying...
Surely Thomas Ball deserves better, and it is up to the Boston Art Commission, Which will rule on the controversy later this month, to either leave the statue in Park Square or select a new location. Emancipation, along with other artistic anachronisms, like the blackface minstrel movies of the 1920s, best belong safely tucked away in the dusty halls of a museum, carefully preserved as a record of the past. And Mr. Lincoln, were he still around today, certainly would take no offense; as he admitted back in 1863, "I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice...
...fortunate artists who have lived long enough to luxuriate in their own revival. The acknowledged master of art deco in the 1920s and '30s, he created exuberantly fanciful costumes in his Paris studio for Anna Pavlova, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and Josephine Baker. The sets he designed for the Folies-Bergère and the Ziegfeld Follies were backdrops for the extravagances of the age. In the postwar era, however, Erté's conceits were often dismissed as high camp or low kitsch. Undeterred, he kept on painting the Erté woman, who is the focus of most...
...1920s, freshman dormitories Gore, Standish and Smith were dueling in more than a dozen sports. Soon after W.J. Bingham '16 took the reins as Harvard's first athletic director in 1926, the intramural program expanded to for mally include upperclassmen. But it was President Lowell's inauguration of the House system in the early '30s that gave intramural athletics their natural medium Students began competing for their Houses rather than for their classes. The new systems inflated the number of teams competing thus opening up intramurals for widespread participation...
Black's message was aimed at fending off dissident shareholders trying to take control of the company he founded in the 1920s, then nursed into a group of nut stores that became Chock Full O' Nuts Corp. The company evolved into a chain of counter-service restaurants, mostly in New York City. But the biggest chunk of its fiscal 1982 sales of $116 million came from its "heavenly coffee," sold nationally under Chock Full's label and promoted in saccharine TV commercials by Black's third wife, Page, who looks fiftyish...