Word: branches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With some diffidence a big studio in the top of Manhattan's swanky Barbizon-Plaza was opened to the public last week for the second annual exhibition of the Business Men's Art Club, New York branch of the Associated Amateur Art Clubs. That organization is devoted to the proposition that in the world of art, tycoons may become more than just customers. Works exhibited last week were more monuments of industry than of art, but critics beamed encouragement, realized that this club and the others associated with it are the finest refutation of the interminable stories of philistinism among...
...world of art, the Princes of Reuss (Germany) are the delight of genealogists. More spectacular is the fact that ever since the 14th Century all male members of the House of Reuss have been named Henry and numbered serially. There are two systems of numerology. The elder branch of the House of Reuss names its Henrys from 1 to 100, then starts in with 1 again. This branch is now extinct in the male line. The first and second limbs of the junior branch name their Henrys according to the centuries: the first male Reuss born after New Year...
...TIME, March 30). Although the Argentine Navy offered to sweep clear a course on the Parana River, the prospect aroused anxiety in British and Argentine sporting publics. Miss England II was the boat in which the late Sir Henry Segrave was killed last year when she hit a floating branch and sank on Lake Windermere (TIME, June 23). Wales got no ride. Last week, with H. R. H. safely attending social functions in Brazil, Kaye Don drove Miss England II up the estuary of the Parana River, three miles of which Government launches had dragged for driftwood. On the last...
Joyce Cornvelt, South African Dutch girl, came back to Holland when her father's death left her an orphan. But the Leyden Cornvelts did not take to her very kindly. She was glad to pay a visit to the English branch of the family. The London Cornvelts were completely Anglicized and quite prosperous; they treated her like the country cousin she was, but Joyce preferred them to the Leydeners. That was in 1908, when the question of woman's suffrage in England had already begun to burn. The Cornvelts were for it, but in a nice way; nobody...
When the decision went against him, Lawyer Ernst declared he would appeal on the grounds that the Society constitutes itself a branch of the Government and hence is not permitted to sue a private concern...