Word: surprisingness
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Saying why this should be so is like trying to say why some leaves have crickets living under them while others have not. When Artist Arthur Rackham adjusts his cuffs and sets out to put part of a story into a picture, his fancy slips cricket-wise into the subject...
It is surprising, even shocking, to the stranger to find so little interest in Modern pictures in Boston and Cambridge, places which have a deserved reputation as centers of alent cultivation of the Seven Arts. One may search in vain for the works of the foremost living painters in the...
It was not surprising that Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, was a part of the labor news last week. She made a move to end the Passaic, N. J., textile workers' strike;* despatched a letter to Col. Charles S. H. Johnson, Vice President of the...
In the State of Delaware there are two clans which are really potent. They fight occasionally, but usually they divide the political machinery of the state between them with a casual gesture. One clan, of course, is the famed Du Pont family whose industries make everything from dynamite to dainty...
TAMPICO-Joseph Hergesheimer -Knopf ($2.50). To a forest of oil wells, peopled by Mexican bandits, derelict Yankees, greasy drillers, dollar-brained exploiters and always, always, their perfumes clinging, their bodies twining and hinting as only a close observer of exotic flesh could make them twine and hint, women of extreme...