Word: cellinis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painting in the penitentiary chapel a remarkable picture of Christ ministering to the poor. It was claimed that the counterfeiters had forced him to work for them under threat of death. President Harding pardoned him. It is possible that in Heaven, some day, Sasanoff may be welcomed by Benvenuto Cellini. ¶ Farewell calls-farewell for the Summer-were paid to the President by Ambassador Jusserand of France, and Senators McKinley, Spencer, Sterling, Cameron. ¶ The Washington baseball team, returning home with a string of nine straight victories, opened a double-header with Philadelphia before 30,000 fans. A few minutes...
...bronze doors, which are masterpieces of Italian cire perdue work of the 16th Century, said to be as fine as those of the Baptistry of Florence. The most conspicuous object in the hall is a bronze bust of the Marquis of Pescara, wearing the Golden Fleece, ascribed to Benvenuto Cellini. In the rooms, which will form the happy hunt-ing-ground of bibliophiles living and bibliophiles yet to be born, are some of the choicest books in existence, ranging from the rare incunabula (books printed before 1500) to autograph copies of books by famous authors and statesmen. Mr. Morgan...
Playgoers who were aghast at the announcement that Lionel Atwill and David Belasco had split, will be relieved to learn that the former has not ceased doing things "worth while." He is rehearsing a drama entitled The Heart of Cellini. The action is largely set in the senescence of the historical goldsmith, philanderer, swordsman...
...wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves in immortal language and their memory will perish. But Dr. Johnson had a press agent in Boswell, Darwin had one in Huxley, and Benjamin Franklin, like Goethe, Leonardo, Dante and Cellini, was his own press agent. If you would have fame, "that last infirmity of noble minds," give up building skyscrapers, railroads, empires, military machines, and write an immortal song or a book of witty epigrams...
...Letter on the Theatre," published in the theatrical journal, "Maski," Andreyev illustrates his views on the theatre of the future by drawing an interesting contrast between the lives of two men of widely different ages and points of view, Benvenuto Cellini and Fried rich Nietzsche. He emphasizes the former's life of crowded events and the latter's withdrawal from such life into the silence and inactivity of the study, where the real drama of Nietzsche's life, however, lies. But, writes Andreyev--"Humbly bowing before the immutable law of action, the contemporary drama declines to represent--indeed, cannot represent...