Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artists, even though he may not be able to comprehend the technical skill, the shrewd relation of form to material that these savage artists used. Their work was not idly decorative but deeply purposeful. They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe. Fear of angry gods and strong enemies was their dominant emotion as they fashioned their fetishes to win divine favor and victory on the battlefield. Wrote famed Critic Sheldon Cheney of this African...
...April 9th. Die Faustidee vor Goethe...
Whipped by a 40 m. p. h. gale, an Ottawa blizzard lashed the state carriage of Canada's unpopular Governor General last week, as His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, rode out to open Parliament for the last time in his five year vice-Regal term. The next Governor General may just possibly be His Majesty's youngest son the Duke of Kent. Last week Lord Bessborough further miffed Canadians by insisting that his youngest son, aged 3, should see papa open Canada's Senate and House of Commons. As usual the vice-Regal...
...board of preachers has voted with the approval of the President and Fellows and of the Board of Overseers that, beginning Sunday, January 9th, 1910, the service in Appleton Chapel shall be held at eleven o'clock in the morning and not at seven-thirty in the evening as heretofore...
Divorced. Lady Ashley (Sylvia Hawkes), onetime musicomedienne; by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, elder son of the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury; in London. Grounds: Adultery. Corespondent: Peripatetic Nicholas Ullman (Douglas Fairbanks), cinemactor (TIME, Sept. 3), who was ordered to pay costs of $10,000 (estimated...