Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EXPRESSION IN AMERICA-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($4). W7hen scripture became only literature. Literatus Lewisohn avers, "it was necessary for literature to become scripture." Modern literati are no mere craftsmen, do not play the beaux to pretty Belles Lettres. They must be poets "whom the thoughtful and instructed modern reader seeks out to experience for him. to interpret for him, to illuminate and to guide him, to face for him the inscrutable. . . ." With such vicarious help, common-or-garden men, in order to climb heavenward, need only keep their glasses polished and read the scriptures as they come.* In his impressions...
Born to a rich family, Florence found no pleasure in parties, housekeeping, beaux or reading-to-Fath.er, as did most of her early Victorian contemporaries. She wanted to Do Something. Aged 34. she scandalized her family by taking up nursing, a profession which at that time chiefly attracted tipplers and bawds. When the Crimean War broke out in 1854 she got Sydney Herbert, Secretary for War, to commission her to take a corps of nurses to the Scutari hospital in Turkey. There she conquered official red tape and unspeakable conditions, won the approbation of Victoria and the nation. Back home she threatened...
Although the Waldorf will frown on rowdy conventions, it will welcome such dignified assemblages as the General Motors Convention in January and that of the American College of Surgeons in February. Loose and liquorish though it always becomes, the Beaux-Arts Ball retains enough arty prestige to have been invited (and obtained) away from the Astor across town. The Canadian Club will have headquarters in the hotel...
...effort which the organization will make will be to curtail the number of schools for nurses. Another will be to make requirements for graduation stricter than ever. Probationers will be required to spend less time with their beaux and more time with their books, pots and mops before they may change the blue uniform of the student for the white uniform of the graduate nurse...
...born 67 years ago in Bellefonte, Pa., now famed as the "hell hole" of trans-Appalachian aviation. He spent his early childhood and learned taxidermy in that delight of small-time comedians, Kankakee, Ill. After studying sculpture at the Chicago Art Institute and the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, he first attracted general attention in the U. S. in 1907 by erecting the Great God Pan, at that time the largest single bronze casting in the country, on the campus of Columbia University. In 1919 the entire nation became Barnard-conscious when a replica of his great...