Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complain that one is not getting enough press publicity is to appear undignified and ridiculous-unless one is a personage inherently dignified and sacred. Last week the Vatican daily, Osservatore Romano, complained that the Supreme Pontiff's latest encyclical, dealing with Education, had received the very meagrest publicity in the Fascistized press of Italy...
...Last week N. W. Ayer & Son (Philadelphia advertisers) issued their perennial publishing statistics, now called Directory of Newspapers & Periodicals. Listing circulations, bringing tidings of organizations quick and dead, the book reported...
...finished by Augustus Lukeman) and Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota (where he is now engaged in excavating 420-ft. images of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt), crumble into dust, can Sculptor Borglum be entirely forgotten. It should require at least 500,000 years for this to happen. It became known last week that the huge stone page of Mt. Rushmore is to be ornamented with a text as well as the Borglum configuration. The text is to be a 500-word history of the U. S. Surely Sculptor Borglum must have been pleased when he learned that his partner in perpetuity...
...Carnegie Institute International Exhibition in 1927, the first prize was awarded to Henri Matisse for his Still Life. Last week, according to Director of Fine Arts Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, the Carnegie Institute had successfully settled a second wreath on the wrinkled Matisse brow. Modernist Matisse would, it was announced, along with two other European and three U. S. artists, serve on the 1930 Carnegie jury; in order to do so, he would pay his first visit...
...scratchy stuff that has to be explained. You can't tell what it is by looking at it. If they could paint portraits of women and children which are just as essential to a household as furniture and carpets, they wouldn't go hungry."-Thus, last week, Mrs. Herbert Claiborne Pell of the New York Junior League, 43, socialite grandmother, prefacing a renewal of her painting activities...