Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scots, who are now righteously demanding that the grounds be closed on Sundays, last week objected to three classic statues of nude women. The canny Scottish exhibitors, not wishing to spoil the commercial attraction of the statues, temporarily solved the problem- they "clothed" the nudes by pasting pieces of paper on the glass screens in front of the statues...
...annual international exhibitions of painting in the U. S. One is at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. It is held every autumn and is devoted to paintings on canvas. The other is at the Art Institute in Chicago. It is held every Spring and is devoted to paintings on paper. Visitors to the Institute's 17th International Water Color Exhibition last week found it notable for several reasons, one of which was that about half the 541 paintings shown were pure-blooded water colors. The rest of the paper paintings were in media as diverse and colorful...
...years, metropolitan readers of New York's Times and Herald Tribune have paid 2? for these big budgets of morning news. Those 2? barely paid the cost of the blank newsprint for each paper. Beginning this week, half a million New Yorkers had to change their habits, fork out 3? for the Times or the Tribune...
...provided a clue: "Substantial increases in all costs that affect newspaper publishing. ..." For the Times, the extra penny will mean increased annual revenue of about $1,000,000, for the Herald Tribune more than $500,000. Since the beginning of last year, more than 200 publishers have raised their papers' prices-some to 5?. The two-cent paper, once ubiquitous in the U. S., is gradually disappearing...
...purge the 400-year-old Austrian National Library, one of the world's best (1,200,000 volumes), announced that all non-Aryan books would be burned. In Williamstown, Mass., a group of Williams College students, including a grandson of Woodrow Wilson and the editor of the college paper, promptly cabled an offer to buy all the banned books to prevent their being burned. Brooklyn's Borough President Raymond Ingersoll cabled that Brooklyn's public library would be glad to have them, offered to pay transportation costs...