Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diamond and platinum chain, the whole containing nearly 400 diamonds (largest stone, five carats) made by Black, Starr & Frost; also a pink leather book containing the names of the lady admirers who presented the brooch (duplicate filed in the secret archives of the State Department) ; a large silver bowl and candlesticks presented by Lady Howard on behalf of the Diplomatic Corps, as wedding gifts for John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull; a check for $100,000 contributed to the endowment of Clarke School for the Deaf (where she used to teach); her ginger-colored chow, Tiny...
...colors has therefore peculiar interest to the Museum. The collection of early Chinese Buddhist drawings has also been increased to a full dozen through the gift of Sir Percival David of London, who has recently added three more. Sir Percival has also presented the Museum with a pottery bowl, one of a unique pair, the other of which remains in the donor's collection in England...
...have not named Henry James, possibly the greatest of modern English language novelists and possibly greater than that. A victorian in "The American" but a contemporary modern (and a model impossible to copy) in "The Golden Bowl" and the "Wings of the Dove"! All modern English writers have copied him and aped him without success. The which has made many of them damn him! After him come Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. And possibly, too, Marcel Proust, as great but in a limited sphere and another tongue...
...contributions, however large, will suffice to permanently relieve the perennial Chinese famine. Such considerations have determined the American Red Cross to send neither food nor cash to China; but persons who give even two cents to the fund may rejoice in the knowledge that they are putting a bowl-full of rice into an otherwise empty and agonized Chinese stomach...
...Riegels, the 175 lb. centre and captain-elect of the California football team, sat last week in the warm sun on the sidelines, with 70,000 people staring down at him and shouting. Not one of them would have changed places with him. The Rose Bowl Tournament has come to be in a sense the most significant football event of the year. At the end of each season, the best of the Eastern teams is invited to play the best team beyond the Rockies, in the Rose Bowl, at Arroyo Seco just outside of Pasadena.* This year, after the Army...