Word: asceticism
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Difficult to discover and pin down as is the full content of his pictures, Arthur Rackham himself still more elusive. His U. S. publishers despair at his abhorrence of publicity. Not since 1909 has his photograph appeared in U.S. public prints. Hardly a soul among his admirers knows that he...
There was a welcome for Conductor Josef Willem Mengelberg, red-faced, genial, like a country doctor, and the concert .was on. There was the gay, graceful symphony of Johann Christian Bach, eleventh son of the mighty Johann Sebastian Bach; there was Beethoven's Eighth, droll, delightful, made side-splitting...
At last Mrs. Wilson was driven to the railway station, there to entrain for Vienna. Upon the station wall a brooding portrait is cut in high relief. The long ascetic face, the level academic brow, the expression care-worn but purposeful, are familiar to Mrs. Wilson. Pausing for a moment...
At Ahmedabad, India, pupils of the National College noted on their faculty roster a name new to the roster, old in fame-Mahatma† Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Mahatma, well-informed, later asked students what they would have him teach. Eagerly they sought seclusion, consulted. Would it be political history...
In Mr. Farrell, Charleston has a miracle-worker of commerce as well as a commercial miracle. In his thin, ascetic features, in his calm eyes, about which tiny wrinkles have come, in his masterful grey mustache and his silky grey hair, in these they will not see the boy of...