". . . Unspeakable design . . . horrible example . . . palm-leaf bauble . . . witless bit of trash. . . ."
With these and other explosions, Art Critic Edward Alden Jewell last week blew up in the New York Times. He was writing about a proposed temporary Victory Arch for Manhattan's Times Square, to be erected when the boys come marching home. The scheme, sponsored by the Broadway Association, was described by its backers as "an arch fashioned to represent two huge palm leaves which are emblematic of Victory....
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