Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robinson. It is very difficult indeed to project across the footlights, so widely differing characters as the three developed in this one. The man of God, as seen by Orgon and Madame Pernelle, the insinuating rascal ready to seduce the wife of his closest friend and greatest benefactor; and the barefaced scoundrel of the last act were all successfully portrayed...
...opportunity. A game, which, like squash, can be continued in later life with all the benefits and eagerness of youth golf deserves every facility and stimulus which can be given it. But two hundred thousand dollars looms rather large on a college horizon--and even if some generous benefactor should present the entire sum with no strings attached, such as a Chairman in Anglo-Saxon poetry or India philology it might not be justifiable to sink it in a golf course. Universities require many things; this one in particular has certain pressing needs which seem to follow a sort...
Through the kindness of Sir Joseph Duveen of London, art collector and son of the well-known Dutch-English art dealer and benefactor, Sir Joseph Joel Duveen, who died in 1908, there is now at the Fogg Art Museum a painting by Titian, which will remain there as a loan for a few days. Professor Arthur Pope of the Fine Arts Department will give a talk on the painting at 3.30 o'clock Monday afternoon...
...Rockefeller Hospital, Peking. He was about to return home after having delivered a series of lectures at the Union Medical College. Famed author of The Care and Feeding of Children* Dr. Holt, nearly 70, was recognized by the profession as an authority, and by the public as a benefactor. "Few doctors have held so high a record in the saving of lives" is an opinion accepted in the medical world. His famous book, dedicated to "The Young Mothers of America," is in the nature of a catechism. It asks and answers such questions as these: "At what...
...beautiful fifth century B.C. Greek head, which had been previously loaned for exhibition was given to the Museum permanently by an anomymous benefactor, and a loan of an early Madonna of the tweifth or thirteenth century was received from Mr. John Nicholas Brown...