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Word: artiste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gathered and grew quicker; then voices cheered, diplomats and dowagers crowded toward the stage on which a girl was nodding and laughing and stooping to pick up flowers. The enthusiasm that greets an opera singer's debut is sometimes the lightest, the most sudden, the most exciting that any artist can ever achieve. Dorothy Speare, last week in Washington, was enjoying a moment that she must always remember for its exquisite gaiety, thrown to her like a bouquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mrs. Christmas | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

Substantiating this boast were able, painstaking, scientific sketches of fish, by Staff-Artist-of-the-Expedition Mrs. Helen Damrosch Tee-Van, niece of onetime Manhattan Symphony Conductor Walter Damrosch. Then there were land and seascapes by Frederick Church, likewise socially and artistically prominent. Also there were those faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fish & Faces | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...strollers, screwing up their eyes, appraised again the astonishingly mongrel collection of Haitian types done by the expedition's third artist. He, Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfielieff, onetime captain of Cossacks, had a story to tell about painting Haitians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fish & Faces | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...Great artist, though he was Handel's music does not possess the same intensity as does Bach's; on the other hand it has more universal colorful appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/17/1927 | See Source »

President Calvin Coolidge, Charles Evans Hughes, Will H. Hays and Mrs. Edward L. Doheny are among sitters who have sat for portraits to Howard Chandler Christy, deft and prolific creator of girl head covers for magazines. Last week Artist & Mrs. Christy reached Manhattan on the Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini Praised | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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