Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cheshire-cat smile on Mr. Burke's face as it faded from the White House picture was caused largely by one event: Otto Hermann Kahn, international banker and art patron, declined appointment by Senator George Higgins Moses to serve as treasurer of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (TIME...
...Foshay, born in Ossining, N. Y., started out to be an artist. But his father's business failure put an end to his art courses at Columbia University.* For four years he worked with the New York Central Railroad Co., later he joined Electric Bond & Share Co. His career, however, did not start until the day he walked into Minneapolis, independent, 36, with little money but a shrewd knowledge and liking of public utilities. His plan: to own and operate public utilities. His method of finance: selling Foshay securities to the public. Within one year he owned public utilities...
...love for art, however, still remains. It was he who had the inspiration for the Foshay Tower. His home and office are cluttered with statues...
...17th Century the halcyon art of Italy had completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious...
...Cleveland Museum of Art is a little ivory panel (10 in. x 12 in.) carved with the story of the sufferings of Jesus. Because it is divided into two sections it is called a diptych. The Museum bought it last year from Manhattan Dealer Demotte and, delighted, published a brochure stating that this diptych was made in the 11th Century at Liege, said it was the most valuable diptych in the U. S., that it cost...