Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still unquenched after a year's enforced abstinence, His Majesty the King-Emperor continued to go-to-the-play last week. After seeing that hardy perennial Rose Marie (for the fourth time) and The First Mrs. Eraser by limping St. John Ervine (TIME, Nov. 18), the royal attention bent to two more plays, of ascending gravity. First The Middle Watch, a decorous farce of life in the British Navy by Major John Hay Beith; second, gripping Journey's End, by R. C. Sherriff, enthusiastically recommended by the Prince of Wales.* Author Sherriff was summoned to the Royal...
Three years ago, Edgar Kaufmann, on culture bent, decided to remodel his store. He scoured the U. S. for a good draughtsman, found Boardman Robinson, painter-cartoonist, asked him for a set of murals expressing the history of commerce. Some years before, Artist Robinson had concluded that the only excuse for painting was to subserve architecture and had applied himself to that problem. Delightedly he accepted the commission, but reserved the right to be his own master at all times, to make his own designs, be left alone. Mr. Kaufmann agreed...
...cadaverous, was on his feet at his Senate desk. The chamber, emptied by an hour-long tariff speech by Senator Broussard of Louisiana, began filling up. In his rear-row seat Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut kept shifting his long legs nervously. His well-cut white head was bent forward; his eyes strayed toward Senator Norris, dropped, scanned the chamber. Senator Jones of Washington glanced up from the workaday stack of books and papers on his desk. Senator Johnson of California in the front row swung his red chair halfway round to watch. His colleague, Senator Shortridge, folded his long...
...vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When he was 14 he had typhoid fever and in his delirium raved about the Renaissance, his longing to become a painter. This was the first indication of his esthetic bent. His mother, impressed, promised that he should go to art school. In 1906 after a few years of study with mediocre landscapists, Modigliani went to Paris where he was described as a "serious looking student who read Dante and lived alone." This solitude was short lived. Paris studios boiled with the revolutionary ideas...
...Score--Harvard 1, M. I. T. 1. Goals-Broad bent, Veliez. Referee--Anderson Linesmen--Ayers, Tatham. Time--four 20-minute periods...