Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...That President Roosevelt "was the first who gave expression to this hatred of Fascism," with a twofold object: "First, he wanted to divert the attention of the American people from difficult and involved inner political problems. . . . Second, by the creation of war opinion and through rumors about the danger threatening Europe, he wanted to get the Amer ican people to accept an enormous arma ment program...
Last year an emissary of ex-King Zog of the Albanians approached Mr. Gade with the object of installing the King in the chateau. It was suggested to Mr. Gade that in lieu of rent he would be decorated with the Albanian Order of Skanderbeg. Mr. Gade just wanted his rent. He was then presented with an autographed photograph of ex-Queen Geraldine. Mr. Gade still wanted his rent. The King then forwarded a handsome knickknack, which he said had been a personal gift from Tsar Nicholas of all the Russias. Mr. Gade had the present traced to a curiosity...
Last August 31, a few hours before his airmen set out to make good his boast in Poland, he promised the British Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson, that, if Germany and Great Britain went to war, his Air Force would bomb only military objectives. Wise Sir Nevile reminded him that because of the speed and height of modern aircraft, bombs aimed supposedly at military targets might easily fall in residential London. Sir Nevile added that he would object to being hit on the head by any such present from Hermann Göring...
...Same year he hired Oriental Expert Daniel Newell, rebuilt the store and its reputation for Oriental art together. Now nearly blind, A. L. is still a shrewd judge of jade by touch. He knows the store so well that he can guide important visitors around and comment on each object, without giving away his handicap...
...podge while he was actually painting; on the contrary, his work reflects a certain kind of clear-sighted vision, a kind of vision or insight which was neither distorted nor crazy. He merely perceived the distortion and grotesqueness of all the elements which form the world; he saw an object as it existed "in itself," without the factors of perspective, or logical continuity, which after all are man-made and depend upon us for existence. He saw things as they were, alone, and then proceeded to reapply these principles of order to them on his canvases. And this entire process...