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...pledge of Democratic leaders to cooperate with President Eisenhower in the best interests of the nation has been thrown in the ashcan . . . [They] are determined to undercut President Eisen hower in every possible...
...much more important things to do. It should be able to buy directly all the power it needs for its own vital work. The contract should go to the lowest competent bidder. The thing to do with this Dixon-Yates contract, Mr. President, is to toss it into the ashcan. Then offer to buy the electric power we need from whosoever makes the lowest bid. Even Democrats don't know how to make a better deal than that. It will deprive them of an issue, and it will settle your problem...
Like Inness, William Glackens snuggled up to nature. The only activity in a class with painting, he believed, was fishing. Glackens served an apprenticeship as an art journalist, sketching news events for the old Philadelphia Press. There he made friends with three future members of the "Ashcan School," a band of painters dedicated to mingling reporting and romance in a new. sketchy sort of realism. Glackens lent allegiance to the group, but trips to Paris awakened a far deeper loyalty to Renoir...
...Ashcan school (gloomy photography) baby legs (short-legged tripod) butterfly (shadow beneath a subject's nose) darkroom widow (a hypo hound's wife) Dinky-Inkie (small spotlight) dynamite (strong developing fluid) high hat (low camera support for "worm's eye" pictures) lens louse (he muscles into someone else's picture) soot & whitewash (a print that has no middle tones) willy (a soft, fuzzy picture...
Died. Everett Shinn, 76, last of the original "Ashcan School" of American painters; in New York. At the turn of the century, he joined the revolt against the namby-pamby art of the period, became famous for his Harper's Weekly illustrations and his Toulouse-Lautrec-like vignettes of Fifth Avenue society and Bowery squalor...