Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Exposition" held in Manhattan, bringing the result of a state-wide ballot on "Alabama's greatest living men and women"-to wit: Writer: Octavus Roy Cohen Statesman: Oscar W. Underwood Soldier: General Robert Lee Bullard Professorial Leader: Dr. George TI. Denny. Captain of Industry: George Gordon Crawford Artist: Roderick D. Mackenzie- Distinguished Citizen: Helen Keller Actress: Lois Wilson* (cinema) Athlete: Joe Sewell* (Cleveland shortstop) Gaston B. Means, famed supersleuth of the Daugherty Department of Justice, star witness of the all-star oil investigations last year, many times tried, surrendered at Washington and was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary...
Prof. Albert Worsham, a humble man and an artist in his way, mounted the platform. Beside him was his quieter colleague, a onetime Mexican, whose cooperation during the lecture was perfect...
This sprawling "essay in economic interpretation . . . a text book of culture . . ." which "will be serving in the schools of Russia within six months," labors two rather self-evident main points: 1) That many an artist now called "great" was a comfortable parasite upon the body plutocratic of his day; 2) that the word "propaganda" may connote the exertion of unconscious as well as conscious efforts to further a doctrine...
Nothing can now be said of Amy Lowell as a poet or as an artist. It must be left to the critics of another era to do that justice to her work of which the present generation, its judgment clouded by affectionate recollection, is incapable. At the moment, there can be no feeling but a consciousness of universal loss; no coherent appreciation but a record of the passing of a personality which has in death bequeathed an everlasting heritage of truth and strength to the unwritten pages of English literature...
...modern poetry. Her research work on Keats and her volume of criticism on modern French poetry have already won fame for her as a scholar. The fact that she has championed the more radical tendencies in modern poetical form has denied her the same fame as a creative artist, but the consensus of opinion among literary critics of the day stamps her as America's foremost living poet...