Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris where he made two lifelong friends. Thomas Benton and Morgan Russell. In 1913 he, with Artist Russell, invented a new art movement called "Synchromism" which was apparently another effort to create illusion through the use of color alone. Same year, wearing a long white robe, sandals, a flowing beard and a jade necklace, he held his first Synchromist exhibition in Munich. Artist Wright is still a Synchromist but does not talk about it much. At present he is more interested in a new process of color photography which he calls "Synchrome...
...blood red globe, symbol of World Revolution, hung before the Seventh World Communist Party Congress in Moscow last week, flanked by huge posters showing Karl Marx's hairy halo, Friedrich Engels' waterfall mustache, the bald cranium and spiked beard of Lenin and Joseph Stalin's well-oiled, glistening locks. For a month 600 Reds of all nations have been non-paying guests in Moscow, candidly preparing Revolution in all countries despite the Soviet State's pledge to President Roosevelt that it "would not permit the formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group...
...interests which did not think themselves sufficiently respected were the protective bondholders' committee headed by Vice President John W. Stedman of Prudential Insurance Co. and an independent committee chairmanned by Historian Charles A. Beard. The Beard committee issued no formal complaint last week but promised to have plenty to say later. The Stedman group objected particularly to substitution for first and refunding bonds of income bonds which would be "little more than preferred stocks under another name." Even more objectionable to it was the idea of allowing Allegheny Corp. to keep a 40% common stock equity...
...Senator Lisandro de la Torre, to duel. The greybeard, a great rapier expert in his youth, promptly agreed to fight the Minister of Finance who had challenged first and, having the choice of weapons, picked pistols. Over 100 Argentineans, mostly prominent, watched. Hoary Senator de la Torre, his grey beard whipped by the winter breeze, drew himself up and fired into the air. Minister of Finance Pinedo, after taking careful aim, squeezed the trigger, missed...
...have ever been seen before in one place. Included were the Rijksmuseum's own nine Rembrandts and 36 more borrowed from abroad for the summer. Among the U. S. importations were Andrew Mellon's Self Portrait, a sharp-chinned, bloated, anxious man of 53 with a Vandyke beard (see cut); Julius Haass's Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's amiable young mistress; the Knoedler Galleries' 'Joseph Accused By Potiphar's Wife. Among the Rijksmuseum's own canvases were Rembrandt's three most famed paintings, The March-Out of Captain Banning Cocq...