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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black boundin' beggar for you broke a British square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Fuzzy Wuzzy | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...unfortunate that the Institute should stumble under the double burden of doing its great work collecting money to make that work possible. Some method should be provided, whether by Congressional appropriation or otherwise whereby this organization shall be forever relieved from the unfitting position of a beggar supporting itself to great extent on private gifts. It is one of those very rare activities which deserve unlimited endowment from a country overflowing with wasted wealth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SMITHSONIAN REPORT | 12/11/1926 | See Source »

Last week a picture was exhibited in Boston-"St. Martin and the Beggar" by El Greco. Carlos Meinhard of the Howard Young Galleries brought the picture to Boston; it had come to him from the collection of John Singer Sargent who owned it for 30 years, allowing it to be shown in public only once-at the exhibition of Spanish art in London in 1895. There is talk now that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will buy it, give it a place beside two other El Grecos that hang there, "St. Dominic" and the Portrait of Fray Feliz Hortenzio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Theotocopuli | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...saints. He was in life a captain. Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen. His parents forced him to give up the thought of serving God and made him enlist in the army of France. One day, quartered at Amiens, he met a naked beggar on the road and divided his cloak with him, immediately afterward beholding a vision of Christ who acknowledged from heaven this act of charity to himself "on the part of Martin,* still a catechumen." In the picture the corded body of the beggar tilts at the pale rump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Theotocopuli | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...fractious Chinaboy who invented printing, by accident, through getting jam on his father's carvings. Another was of the sea-dwelling Shen (demons) who inundated a great city to expand their province but were later outwitted by the wisest of kings. There was Weng Fu, the wit-wandering beggar who sold himself as a father to an orphan boy in the Street of Wang's Broken Tea Cup near the Seven Thieves Market, and "that lazy Ah Fun" who blew up his honorable father with the bed-stove, broooomp! All these things and many more Mr. Chrisman noted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Week | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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