Word: bearers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fernand Léger served three years as a stretcher bearer in the War, figured out in his own mind the sort of painting he wanted to do. Humanity appalled him. For more than 20 years he has been at work making confused, elaborate patterns of gears, wheels, lamps, streaks and segments of color, at about $2.50 a square inch. Tycoons and esthetes have paid that price, for all Leger abstractions have a technical slickness comforting to men of affairs, all make excellent decorations...
...history he was King of all the Britons by the grace of God, (though actually by the grace of Parliament); Defender of the Faith-the English Faith-a Catholicism without a Pope (a title accorded to Henry VIII by the Pope); Emperor of India, living symbol and standard bearer of white civilization ruling over Asiatic peoples. But in life he was above all a gourmet; the symbol of the pleasures of life; dictator of modes; regulating all other ways of life to the way of enjoyment, and living to enjoy while living; beloved by the grand mondc of the Continent...
...original "anti-heart balm" bill which Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson introduced in the State Legislature last January (TIME, Feb. 18). Only woman member of the legislature, mother of two and daughter-in-law of Author-Diplomat Meredith Nicholson, she said: "It looks like I've become the standard bearer of a crusade to make the world safe...
...difficult privilege to be the torch bearer of ordered freedom. I could wish that aircraft had never been invented, but they are here and somehow we have got to Christianize them. . . . The greatest force in the world today for peace is the British Empire...
...Eugene Nortz once held $106,300 of U. S. certificates in which the Treasury promised to pay the bearer on demand in good old-value gold coin. Mr. Nortz was compelled by Presidential order to turn his certificates in and take devalued dollars. So he sued the Government in the Court of Claims which put the case up to the Supreme Court...