Word: cataloged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to sanction steam engines for men o'war, called them visionary, impractical. The eagle-beaked Duke of Wellington spoke bitterly against the International Exhibition of 1851 because it would "bring too many strangers into the country." The British Museum Library has consistently refused to adopt a card catalog, elaborately enters every acquisition in bulky ledgers. Excuse: "The sharp bits of pasteboard are apt to cut one's fingers...
...Noyes, Instructor in English, to catalog the songs in Restoration Drama from contemporary music books from 1660 to 1710, and to collect for publication the music of the more attractive songs...
...Frank Weston Benson's Pintails is still the U. S. record. But few prints, abroad or in the U. S., sell for more than $100 and the majority bring less than $50 at the time of issue. "Prices subject to change without notice" was the announcement on a catalog of a recent large Manhattan exhibition, indicating the speculative spirit which is driving U. S. prices upward...
...made artistic history a decade or more ago; his paintings as well as his prints are in many museums. His etchings indicate his favorite pastime ?hunting and sketching wildfowl in lonely marshes. They bring higher prices than those of any living U. S. artist. A recent exhibition catalog, stating the prices of other etchers' works, tactfully omitted mention of Benson's prices, but the initial offer must be $150 or better...
...paunchy Dictator indeed had reason to worry last week. Unmentioned in his catalog of opponents was the not inconsiderable figure of King Alfonso. For years the King has been less than lukewarm to the dictatorship, continually giving awkward hints of a return to parliamentary government "as soon as conditions warrant." A month ago Madrid cafes buzzed with gossip that the King was about to demand the resignation of Dictator Primo de Rivera as Prime Minister and appoint that elegant grandee, the Duke of Alba, in his place (TIME, Dec. 2). Dictator Primo de Rivera quashed the rumor, sternly announced that...