Word: browed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carnegie Institute International Exhibition in 1927, the first prize was awarded to Henri Matisse for his Still Life. Last week, according to Director of Fine Arts Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, the Carnegie Institute had successfully settled a second wreath on the wrinkled Matisse brow. Modernist Matisse would, it was announced, along with two other European and three U. S. artists, serve on the 1930 Carnegie jury; in order to do so, he would pay his first visit...
...face belonged to one Albert Nye Roughton, 54, U. S. citizen. Worn, wrinkled, penniless, he had tramped from Ottumwa, Iowa, to Washington to tell his story. He had served aboard the U. S. S. Dixie during the Spanish War, was thus entitled to a pension. The brand on his brow he got from the Turks in 1915. Aboard a British Merchantman running the Turkish blockade into Asia Minor, he had been captured, mistaken for a spy. The Turks had marked his forehead with their own Spider of Death and Germany's Double Eagle. Then they imprisoned...