Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...windows last week offered impressive opposition to this trend. They were not only magnificent and intricate examples of the stained-glass worker's art. They were Renaissance-style windows of the sort first-rate U.S. stained-glass makers had been studiously avoiding since the early 1900s. Moreover, the artist who had thus dared oppose the prevailing medieval style was the most famous of all present-day glass stainers: a stocky, bull-necked Hollander named Joep Nicolas, who arrived in the U.S. two years ago with a wife, two children and a load of glazier's equipment...
Died. Joseph Harry Benrimo, 67, actor-dramatist, co-author of The Yellow Jacket; in Manhattan. In the 1890s and early 1900s he played supporting roles with Modjeska, James O'Neill, Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham...
...only large-scale commercial method of producing toluene was from by-product coke ovens, which were then a bright new technological improvement over beehive ovens. Germany's Heinrich Koppers, at the instigation of U.S. Steel, had begun revolutionizing U.S. coke production with his ovens in the early 1900s. War and the Alien Property Custodian dumped his properties into U.S. hands (chiefly the Mellons') and also accounted for the growth of Koppers Co., which by war's end was putting a new U.S. coke oven into operation every 60 days, a new U.S. toluene plant every six weeks...
Died. Blanche Bates, 68, romantic heroine of the U.S. stage of the early 1900s; of a stroke; in San Francisco. Born into a theatrical family, she chose to be a schoolma'am, was teaching kindergarten in San Francisco in 1894 when she made her stage debut with a local company in which her mother acted. She never returned to teaching. Her first major hit was as Cho-Cho-San in Madame Butterfly in 1900. As Cigarette in Under Two Flags (1901), as the breezily beautiful Girl of The Girl of the Golden West (1905), her popularity hit tops...
Died. Wells Hawks, 71, longtime press-agent of the old school; in Pomona, N.Y. In the early 1900s he publicized Julia Marlowe, Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, popularized the Mary Pickford label: "America's Sweetheart...