Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollar of 1840, an unknown model posed for Artist Christian Gobrecht, seated on a rock, wearing a Greek chiton, a staff in her left hand, a U.S. shield in her right...
General Arthur Currie, now President of McGill University, Montreal, arose and presented to Lady Byng, on behalf of the Canadian Corps, a portrait of Baron Byng by the Canadian artist, Major Forberry. Turning to his old commander, whom he succeeded in 1917, General Currie continued: "And will you, sir, in memory of other days, and as a small mark of our deep affection, please accept a motor...
...freely a rich love that was a whole way of life. But his ancestors poisoned his happiness. The more Nina was his, the less inclined he was to introduce her to his mother. The old Corsey servants were enough to remind him that she was only a poor artist's daughter, that she lived in the wrong part of town, that Cor seys had never paraded ? never thought of marrying! ? their mistresses...
Miss Hempel sang two groups. The first consisted of Lieder by Marx, Richard Strauss, and Hugo Wolf. These numbers tended toward the humorous, and while they were sung with charm it was in the second group that Miss Hempel again proved herself the sterling artist she is. This began with the Grand Aria from "Dinorah" in which the demented heroine chases her shadow vocally and competes with a flute. Miss Hempel easily won the competition. The chromatic octave which she ascended and descended twice in one breath was a noteworthy feat. The pathetic "Schwesterlein" of Brahms, the rollicking humour...
...WHEN the artist must eat, and at the very best night clubs, art flies out the window. F. Scott Fitzgerald has decided to live well and write too. This is forgiveable and understandable in a young man of means. But when his writings maintain him in the style to which he is unaccustomed it take a good deal of writing for the Red Book to keep the purse at the proper bulge...