Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plumbing. Another day Newark art-lovers trooped to see an exhibit arranged, designed and specially announced by Mr. Dana. In whispers they exclaimed over the beauty of the bowls, the form of the colored vases. Wisely they nodded their arty heads over the placard "Beauty has no relation to age, rarity or price." Then one art-lover gave an exclamation. The others fluttered to the side of the afflicted one, read a little note: "Every article in this room was selected at a Newark store, costs no more than...
...pair of false whiskers so you won't be bothered," he wrote. "I am thinking of a series of disguises for myself so that I can go to picture galleries and look . . . and think. . . ." Impressionism permanently affected him. His subjects were usually nobodies of all nationalities. From the age of 33, when the Luxem bourg purchased his cityscape La Neige, Artist Henri's reputation vaulted, his tal ent ripened slowly, continuously. He taught in Philadelphia, Paris, New York. His later years were spent at Manhattan's Art Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this...
...Gauvreau explained: "It probably won't be long before I'll become editor of another New York newspaper. I hope so, anyway. I have no intention of retiring at the age of 37. I resigned from the Graphic because I disagreed heartily with Mr. Macfadden on vital and essential matters of policies, not only of his newspaper but of his other publications as well. I would never work for Mr. Macfadden again under any circumstances...
...Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...
Chief Witness, Macauley has been general manager of Packard since 1910, president since 1916. He was born in Wheeling, W. Va., in 1872. His father, James A. Macauley, was born in Ireland, came to this country at the age of 12, later fought in the Civil War where he lost an arm in battle and spent nine months in Confederate prisons. The elder Macauley was West Virginia's first Secretary of State. The son went to Lehigh University, took a law degree at George Washington University, became (1895) patent attorney for National Cash Register...