Word: angel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigged herself in pantaloons and high stiff collar as Herbert Hoover. Actress Ina Claire went as Episcopal Bishop William Thomas Manning, her escort was disguised as the Bishop's current antagonist, ex-Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey (TIME, Dec. 15). Dancer Adele Astaire thought she was the opposite of an angel. Lady Ribblesdale went as Charlie Chaplin, Banker Mortimer Schiff as Oscar Wilde. Two socialite matrons chose to dress as "Ladies of the Temperance Union." Composer Cole Porter went as an oldtime footballer, his wife as a housemaid. Princess Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst wore the robes...
...ANGEL PAVEMENT--J. B. Priestley (Harpers...
...sophisticated brand of humor displayed by Peter Arno in his "Hullabaloo" and the same thing by other artists in the "Third New Yorker Album." Those desiring more substantial reading are now concentrating on "Charles W. Eliot" by Henry James and on such bulky tomes as Priestley's "Angel Pavement" and Arnold Bennett's "Imperial Palace...
...Blake water colored them by hand, with the result that the same print is often found in different coloring schemes. A greater part of the artist's works are on Biblical subjects. A note-worthy example is a water color owned by the Fogg Museum entitled "The Angel Binds the Dragon...
...somewhat startling compliment. As every French social ite knows, leaders of the U. S. colony in Paris are three elderly gentlemen: elegant, wasp-waisted Berry Wall, once New York's Best-Dressed Man; dignified Wil liam Nelson Cromwell, who has the curious distinction of being the financial angel of the Legion of Honor; and Art Benefactor and Philanthropist Edward Tuck. As a man and as a resident of Paris, Philanthropist Tuck, 88, is senior of the three. He first went to Paris in 1864 as vice-consul, appointed by Abraham Lincoln. His friends know that he is the least...