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...many of his female nudes of the 1920s, Picasso departed from tradition by clearly indicating the anus...
...World War I, Australia lost 59,258 young men out of a total of 330,000 sent abroad. Both as a proportion of troops killed or missing and as a proportion of national population, this was the highest figure for any Allied state. It left us in the 1920s as a psychically devastated nation of widows, spinsters and orphans. This enormous death toll was rationalized as a cleansing, an erasure of the inherited stain of convictry. Winston Churchill, who sent our grandfathers to die on the implacable slopes of Gallipoli, was by no means the only Englishman to think they...
Chicago Architecture Foundation From the birthplace of the skyscraper come wooden miniatures (from $25.95) of the cake-slice Wrigley Building and the Gothic Tribune Tower - both built in the 1920s - as well as the John Hancock Center, above left, a squared-off, tapering tower, which wouldn't look out of place in Beijing. And architects don't just do buildings: for desktop tulips there's an elegant Frank Lloyd Wright vase in jade or nutmeg ($110). www.architecture.org...
...could be like Ida Rosenthal. She invented cup sizes back in the 1920s. Warners picked up her idea and decided that most women would fall somewhere between an A and a D. At the time it was a breakthrough. But Mr. Buffett, please, this is such old tech. Are you wearing 80-year-old underwear? Again, no need to answer. But how can it be that in the past eight decades we've gone from measuring by furlongs and pinches to microns and nanoseconds and gigabytes, but we're still sizing bras according to the first few letters...
...Born in Luxembourg, Steichen emigrated to the U.S. with his parents when he was two. After training in lithography, he began careers in both photography and painting. Though he abandoned painting in the 1920s, he spent his long life making the case for photography as fine art. He also believed that serious photography could be both artistic and commercial, an insistence that led to his falling out with the more high-minded Alfred Stieglitz, his mentor, friend and co-founder of the Photo-Secessionist movement...