Word: doling
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...piece of steel, securely fitted in its niche in the A. P. Building's façade, was unveiled. Short, kewpie-faced Noguchi listened to the speeches, viewed his plaque, looked relieved. When it was all over he started for Hawaii, where Hawaiian Pineapple Co. (Dole pineapple) had offered him a three-month holiday...
...with Song on Your Bugles, a first novel vividly evoking Yorkshire textile workers of 25 years ago. (Author Knight, ex-reporter and Hollywood writer, emigrated to the U. S. as adolescent.) Deft but less vivid, The Happy Land tells the story of a coal-mining Yorkshire village on the dole. In particular it is the story of the motherless Clough family, the spunky fight of eldest daughter Thora against depression odds which send one brother to prison, frustrate the talents of another, turn her father into a fiercely baffled radical, make tormenting alterations in her love life...
...Hawaii Artist O'Keeffe happily painted fishhooks, tropical flowers, lava bridges, waterfalls-but nary a pineapple. To Dole on her return she presented a vivid red canvas of crab's claw ginger, a lush green papaya tree (Dole's rival is papaya juice...
Tactful Art Director Charles Coiner of N. W. Ayer (Dole advertising agency) took a hand, spouted to Painter O'Keeffe about the beauty of pineapples in bud, urged her to give the pineapple a break. He phoned Honolulu, had a budding plant put aboard the Clipper. Thirty-six hours later the plant was delivered to the O'Keeffe studio in Manhattan. "It's beautiful. I never knew that," exclaimed Artist O'Keeffe. "It's made up of long green blades and the pineapple grows in the centre of them." She promptly painted it, and Dole...
...Alfred Stieglitz' gallery, An American Place, last week opened the result of his wife's trip: 20 paintings, including the two for Dole. The other 18 were for sale, at prices ranging up to $4,000. Best sequence: four glowing canvases of green mountains and black rocks, each held together by thin white wisps of waterfalls. Critics agreed that Georgia O'Keeffe was still tops among U. S. woman painters, mused over her Steinesque catalogue note : "If my painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives...