Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Careening through life with the impetus of a cannon ball, Balzac dashed into love affairs at every turn. His first two mistresses were twice his age. People of all sorts, from grocery clerks to emperors, fired his imagination to write about them. In the meantime, he loved carriages, good wine, sleek clothes, expensive food. He ran up debts of 150,000 francs and trying to extricate himself by scatter-brained schemes, increased them. His economic principle was that spending more money means the necessity for earning more money, and as his only sure way of earning more money...
...Stanton, Miss Julia Anne McMeen; R. B. Breenman, Miss Rosamond Adams; G. L. Perin, Miss Dorothy Perham; T. A. Viehe, Miss Esme Lucas; F. M. Thomas, Miss Polly Kittridge; W. P. Lyford, Miss Alice Mills; R. G. Puffer, Miss Gertrude Puffer; D. F. Harding, Miss Elizabeth Snyder; F. H. Cannon, Miss Josephine Flynn...
...inspiration to action, honor, especially of the tawdry vaudeville variety, is out of place following the consummation of the deed. All glory adulation and honor to the pioneers, but when humanity makes step onward and upward without ringing bells whose clamor grows harsh, and firing too loud cannon, that will be news...
...there was an operation a month ago. A pair of silver shears, now glorified as relics, cut down the world's largest painting on canvas-a cyclorama, 400 feet long, at which tourists have stared for eight years. On it is a pictorial history of the World War- cannon and weeping mothers in black, plunging airplanes and statesmen-a gigantic optical illusion as seen from the centre of the circular temple. Parts of it are painfully real. There are 6,000 figures, the creations of 22 artists, whose skill is photographic rather than impressionistic...
...Reception to Entering Students, September 30, 1926. Speakers, President Lowell, Assistant Dean Worth Hale, and Acting Dean W. B. Cannon. This was followed by an informal reception with music and refreshments. Attendance...