Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French citizen, living for a good part of each year in a magnificent chateau outside Paris. His French citizenship, however, does not deter him from accepting and using a British title. His apparent business is Continental sales agent for Vickers and other large munitions factories in Britain; beneath and beyond this no man knows the limit of his influence. He is also a great philanthropist, having established large numbers of orphanages throughout Europe...
Both the prosecution land the defense made emotional appeals in their final address to the jury. 0. L. Smith, Assistant Attorney General of Michigan, made his plea for conviction on the basis of patriotism, urging the jurors to keep faith with our soldier dead " beneath the crosses on Flanders Field." Frank P. Walsh, chief counsel for the defense, compared the Foster trial to the trial of Socrates and the persecutions of the early Christian martyrs, and quoted from Plato, Thomas Jefferson, Wendell Phillips, and the Declaration of Independence in behalf of the right of free speech and revolution...
...others, working in heatless studios, live chiefly on rice. Thomas E. Kirby, for 40 years leading figure in the art auction business in the United States, is retiring as head of the American Art Association to write his memoirs. [About $60,000,000 worth of art works have passed beneath his hammer since he came to New York in 1883.] "New York," Mr. Kirby says, "is now the art center of the world." Possibly inspired by Edward of Wales, an American buyer paid $10,000 for a realistic painting of western life by Charles M. Russell, Montana painter of cowboys...
Rembrandt's wonderful light has been revealed glowing beneath the dust of centuries, a famous panel lost for nearly 400 years. It was part of a sale at auction in Prague, and was discovered by Dr. Gustav Weil, collector, through an obscure Persian inscription and a signature almost buried in grime. The "light that never was on land or sea" was painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they...
...their just and well-earned due. Will they be content to remain wage-slaves at union rates? Not they. They will divide the box office receipts among themselves, and the fact that such a division will make mighty small wages for them will merely in- crease their elation. Beneath this surface of madness, as the critic of The New York Times pointed out last Sunday, there must be certain subtleties of method. Mr. Stransky as conductor seems to give the clue. This musician recently re-signed or was "forced" out of the conductorship of the Philharmonic -both explanations were given...