Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar note pass across the background of "The Singing Swan." Boswell, to whom she gave much scandal about the great doctor, Garrick, Reynolds, Coleridge, and Adam Smith...
Goehr's Malpopita is thoroughly morbid, as are nearly all current European art-efforts. Adam Schickedanz, after ten years in a factory, seeks adventure, falls in with sailors who persuade him to ship aboard a rumrunner. Fleeing from U. S. Government boats, the ship is wrecked on the island of Malpopita where the crew eventually discovers oil and Adam becomes once more a heckled, hard-working under...
...Great. . . ." Hohenzollern Viereck, it appears, has also been, if not a great ladies' man, at least a big woman's man. He tells of many a kiss and run. "On one memorable occasion I was compelled to hide under her bed in the same state in which Adam concealed himself from God in the Garden of Eden, because her father, returning home unexpectedly, insisted on talking to her through the half open door of his room while he himself was undressing. Ordinarily, with me at least, a touch of danger intensifies desire." Many a personage has taken Poet...
Samuel Wallace Reyburn resigned as president of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan department store, to devote all his time to the presidency of Associated Dry Goods Corp. which controls Lord & Taylor and James McCreery & Co. in Manhattan, Hahne & Co. (Newark); J. N. Adam & Co. and The William Hengerer Co (Buffalo), Stewart & Co. (Baltimore), Stewart Dry Goods Co. (Louisville), Powers Mercantile Co. (Minneapolis...
...languid gentry, contributed a roomful of slightly improper drawings of ladies and gentlemen in fancy dress in which he combined the manners of Aubrey Beardsley, Botticelli, Benozzo Gozzoli and Florenz Ziegfeld. His pictures bore such titles as: La Chevalier (sic) de la Jarretière, Lady Woudnaught, Sir Adam Coudnaught, Odalisque, Lady Couch. Prince Henry and his cousin-countess showed views of France, Africa, Egypt and New York, painfully wrought...