Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. E. B. Dewing, daughter of artistic Anglo-Manhattan parents, privately educated, was not very old when she presented herself to a startled publisher as the author of Other People's Houses, a novel which he was eager and fortunate to publish. That was 17 years ago when girls just out of their teens simply did not write novels, let alone good ones. She carried the thing further with A Big Horse to Ride (1911) and queened it in all the studios that counted. Then, abruptly, she stopped writing,. married and went out to Washington, to raise hogs...
Serene, undisheveled, he hastened away, to a reception at which he expected to meet fellow theosophists-Craig Biddle of Philadelphia, Mrs. Theus Munds of Manhattan, Major General James Henry McRae, Architect Claude Bragdon-as at Manhattan he had expected to greet Artist James Montgomery Flagg...
...steady, quiet work of holding life together" in relief stations behind the lines. She is a Ph. D., having studied at Ohio State University (during the presidency of her father, Dr. James Hulme Canfield) and at Columbia University. She married John Redwood Fisher, a Columbia football captain. With her artist mother, she has spent years abroad. In Rome she knew Mme. Montessori and wrote A Montessori Mother which was widely translated. Her two grown daughters-Mrs. Fisher is now 47-bear witness to an intelligent upbringing. Her study is on a Vermont farm. Other books that have come from...
...flew at the shrieking passengers, then another, then the cabin crushed in upon them, everything upside down in pain, screams, a horrifying silence. Some of the passengers regained consciousness before they were dragged out; some awoke in Folkestone and Sandgate hospitals. Robert Blaney, just-graduated-from-Harvard son of Artist Dwight Blaney of Boston never awoke; neither did another passenger, an Italian. The French pilot died next day. The British Air Ministry started investigations into "the most serious passenger airplane tragedy England has ever experienced."* Yet there was no thought of abating air travel in Europe. Frightful though...
...quarter century of her reign. Mr. Bok saw much, and what he saw was good. Last week he conveyed to the Queen whose sovereignty he escaped by "Americanization" a memento of esteem-a stained glass window for the Nieuwe Kirk at Delft. By Mr. Bok's command Dutch Artist W. A. von Konynemburg will paint Her Majesty upon glass "in various symbolic attitudes, as the embodiment of all the cardinal virtues...