Word: ariosto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last autumn, to comply with the law which required that the Commission be appointed within 90 days after its passage, President Roosevelt "temporarily" named three men : Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, Rear Admiral Harry Gabriel Hamlet and Treasury Official George Landick...
...Hell. Last week at the Petit Palais in Paris, a representative exhibition of his work marked the centenary of his birth. Born in Strasbourg, he never took drawing lessons, made fair pictures at 6, relying on an amazing photographic memory. From his versatile illustrations for Rabelais. Dante. Cervantes, Ariosto, La Fontaine, Dumas. Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, et al., he earned in 35 years of work the prodigious total of seven million francs (nearly $1,500,000 at that time...