Word: guardedness
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¶ Last week the Cabinet sat long studying the Depression. Out to the Press was sent this statement: "The President and his advisers have been going over the economic situation and have found many factors that are favorable." The factors were not specified. Later from the White House came guarded...
In the five rooms and hallway that constitute the Museum of Modern Art in the Heckscher Building, Manhattan, last week hung the best collection of modern painting yet seen there-woodcuts and paintings by Gauguin, several vivid Cezannes, a Seurat seascape, a colorful Degas, splendid examples of Frenchmen Monet, Renoir...
Confessing to eleven murders, to seven attempted murders, to a grand total of nearly 100 crimes, Peter Kuerten, a workman aged 47, sat in a neat blue serge suit, in the dock at Düsseldorf last week. A year and a half ago all Germany shuddered at the gruesome exploits...
Long has the gateway to musical recognition been guarded by Influence and Wire-Pulling. The ambitious young U. S. artist used to be as dependent on the stroke of luck which would get him a beneficial hearing as he was on his ability. Comparatively recent is the contest system, whereby...
Farther down the hall, guarded from the main corridor by two secretarial offices, is a flaming lacquer-red door. When this door is thrown open, the scene is like the bursting of a rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls...