Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Intrigued, His Majesty announced late in the week that he would purchase the portrait. Citizens of the Borough of Fulham, which had already contracted with Artist Jack for this work, intending to hang it in their Council Chamber, were surprised...
...debuts of Miss Lewis and Miss Talley?Miss Lewis whose voice is not under any circumstances an important one for an operatic career; Miss Talley, with a better vocal equipment, but needing greatly long periods of quiet, concentrated study to eliminate serious vocal difficulties and find herself as an artist. Both young women were given publicity beyond their merits. Both of them went on the Metropolitan stage pursued by reputations manufactured in advance, and neither of them had the technic or artistic maturity to meet the test...
...fine actress, a rare artist of the kind that comes but once in a generation, a bit of a sorceress, if you ask me."?Alexander Woollcott...
...young girl when she took her first engagement in a dingy Barcelona fishermen's cafe. She wandered from village to village, city to city, picking up the melodies that are woven through Spanish life. Her King heard of her and commanded a performance. She became the cardinal vocal artist of her country...
...wind that blew dismayed this crew or troubled their artist minds; they fired salutes beneath Capital's boots, with every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary...