Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French caricaturist and painter; afterward there were others: the French Impressionists, French and American moderns. But his first interest never waned; today Mr. Phillips has the best Daumier collection in the world. In 1918 he had enough pictures to open the Phillips Memorial Gallery in his home on 21st Street, Washington. Since then the collection has grown so large that paintings are crowding the family out. Another house is now being built where the family will live, but when they move they will not strip the 21st Street house of its furnishings. It is one of Mr. Phillips' theories...
Last week Andre Maurois, cosmopolite, suave veteran of literary teas, facile biographer (Ariel, la vie de Shelley) returned to Paris from a round-the-world tour on behalf of the Alliance Française, international society to promote French culture. At the 21st birthday dinner of the Alliance Française Biographer Maurois who prides himself on his fluent, accentless English reported to his employers on the spread of the French language abroad. "I rejoice," said he, "that England is a country where real progress is being made in the study of correct, modern French. In Canada they speak French...
Fifty thousand youths had come to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Boy Scouts of the World. Their ages ranged from 12 to 18, their color from white to black...
...21st U. S. President...
...21st year as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company behind him, his 41st trip across the Atlantic ahead of him, Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced last week his new singers...