Word: artful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other writer like Margaret Mitchell; such others as Caroline Miller (Lamb in His Bosom); Evelyn Hanna (Blackberry. Winter); Harry Lee (Fox in the Cloak); a tolerated museum of art, music club, theatre guild...
...three sons, two were disappointments. Heinrich, the eldest, married a Hungarian noblewoman, was made a baron of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy...
...Eternal God . . . Thou Who art of too pure eyes to behold iniquity, look.upon the desolations that are wrought in the earth, and the evil of men who will not do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with their God. We, Thy servants, humbly confessing our share in this evil, pray to Thee against war. . . . We ask for mercy, human and divine, upon the people of Finland. Let not our imaginations fail to see their plight. . . or our hands be slow in helping their affliction. The families that ruthless violence puts in jeopardy, may our generosity assist; and the hapless victims...
Cinema's peculiar virtue as an art is that it conquers the limitations of stage and life, ranges wherever man's imagination takes him, unrestrained by time or space or experience. Nobody in the movie business ever realized cinema's possibilities more completely than elusive, gay, acrobatic Douglas Fairbanks, son of a Denver lawyer and Shakespearean expert...
Phaidon Press Art Books, Oxford: RODIN ($3); RUBENS ($2.50); MASTERPIECES OF EUROPEAN PAINTING IN AMERICA...