Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present, the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective show omitted only his student output and his recent sculpture (whose casting for the show World War II halted). Perhaps no other artist could survive so big a one-man show so well. It ranged from an academic study of moonlight and roses, painted in 1898 when Picasso was 17 and had already set himself up as an independent artist in Barcelona, to 1939 portraits in which he practices artistic schizophrenia and tries to catch several views of a face at once...
...huge beam of "black light" to black out the moon, thus deny moonlight to nocturnal air raiders...
...honorary vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization, he deleted the sentence. One moonlight night on the Isle of Capri, a U. S. woman artist invited him to dinner, proposed marriage. By producing pictures of two nephews, claiming them as his sons, Bachelor Westermarck escaped...
...tony ones stayed at cozy Holly Tree Inn. But most of the spectators as well as the players bunked in the barrack-like dormitories on the campus. For five days they watched the tennis and for five nights they fraternized: a get-together reception, a watermelon feast, a moonlight sail, moving pictures and a climactic Grand Ball...
...then Prince of Wales) personal bravos. And all the time, without bothering to get them copyrighted, he wrote songs (some 700), many of them today either unpublished or unidentified. The best of them (Oh, Dem Golden Slippers, In the Morning by the Bright Light, In the Evening by the Moonlight, etc.) stood high in the list of bestsellers. Today's music connoisseurs are beginning to call Bland "the Negro Stephen Foster," to rate him after Foster as the second greatest U. S. writer of Southern songs. During his lifetime, Minstrel Bland called himself, more modestly, "the best Ethiopian song...