Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receive $10 a month; the physicians who wear themselves out attending patients who can never pay; the writer who receives royalties of $50 for a book, which represented a year of research; the officer's widow, who receives a pension of a few cents a month; the artist obliged to sell a fine etching for half a dollar; in short those who once had a little leisure or money and who could transmit and enlarge the nation's fund of knowledge and beauty, how do they live ? " An example: "... a man, let us say, with two children...
...commemorate the tercentenary of the death of Cervantes, famed author of the still more famous Don Quixote, the Spanish Government issued 125 four-volume sets of that magnificent story. This edition is illustrated with 200 drawings by the Spanish artist, Senor Don Ricardo Marin...
...point of view. Firmly yet gently, he would lead the talent of America from the footsteps of W. L. George, Theodore Dresier and Mr. Spingarn. Instead he would have them turn to Emerson and Whitman and Thoreau. Produce literature which "socializes the spiritual wealth of the country"! Your true artist is but the sounding board for this vast and half-articulate land" which has for its genius a great "moral idealism" gained from the Puritans...
Sheets of paper, pasted together, pumice-stoned and glazed, so as to resemble oilcloth, was the background on which the Japanese artist Tsugouhara Foujita painted his watercolor picture, entitled En Famille, which has made a sensation at the annual Paris United Salon. It represents an artist and his French wife seated at a table littered with brushes, colors, tobacco and cigarette papers, and is said to combine harmoniously the best traditions of Japanese and Oriental...
...mixes pathos with humor. The plot concerns itself with Sally Winch waiting for the return of George Miles her sweetheart. Sally has other wooers, and these attempt to tell stories against Miles. But she refuses to believe them, even the one told by Miles' friend Cope, who is an artist in falsification, and who described Miles' condition because George has believed that no woman would marry him wounded as he is and he wants to put Sally to the test. Sally refuses to believe, George returns from the war slightly wounded, and a reconciliation is effected by the final curtain...