Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascism as they would not otherwise have found in the U. S. except in the Italian room at Pittsburgh's Carnegie International. Except for the unaccountable absence of paintings by Felice Carena. a graceful and accomplished Italian counterpart of America's John Carroll, it was a comprehensive though not a highly selective show. The 100 paintings included works by private painters as well as painters on whom the Corporate State has set the seal of official approval by commissioning them to do frescoes for public buildings and for the Italian Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition last summer...
...very heavy, with large teeth having resemblance in various characters to several of the most primitive human types." The position of the ear and lower jaw socket were human, the absence of a well-developed mastoid process "very apelike." The back of the skull was missing, as though smashed in by a blow...
...Take Romance (Columbia). Tennessee's soprano, Cinemactress Grace Moore, recently braved wisecracks by showing up in Manhattan with a big, tasty Tennessee ham in her arms (TIME, Dec. 13). Though her new film invites no such unkind wisecracks, neither does it bring home any bacon...
...year by year the menswear trade doggedly fights to infect its customers with the same virus of fashion and change prevalent among women. Rare are their successes. Last week it looked, however, as though they had succeeded with cuff links. Hickok Manufacturing Co. (men's accessories) announced triumphantly: "American men have bought more cuff links in the last four months than they bought in the previous four years." Other cufflink makers told the same story: Swank Products Inc. that it was selling ten times as many cuff links as it was a year ago; Krementz & Co. that its cufflink...
...Loyalist newspaper in Madrid, although he protested that he "lacked revolutionary spirit," disapproved of both proletarian and fascist dictatorships. After four months, having "accrued enough merits to deserve to be shot by either side," he fled to France, declaring he could have no dealings with murderers "even though in our times this is a luxury that few can afford...