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...volume edition of the Oxford Lectern Bible which appeared in 1935. The use of different type faces characterize Rogers' fine editions and along with examples of his work, his reason for using the particular design is given. Among the varieties of type is found his own widely known Centaur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Book Designs, Japanese Art Among Widener and Robinson Exhibits | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...country estate and the pleasures of town. He is married to a beautiful wife, but they are just pals. Alec not only has good looks (he was called "Adonis" at Yale but was somehow popular), but also a fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides like a centaur, drives like a state policeman. He did his bit in the War ("We had slept with our windows open that hard winter and had had only one blanket apiece"). And he is almost as hard a drinker as a Dashiell Hammett hero. It is small wonder that Julie falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daydream | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...SWANK - Sherwood Anderson- Centaur Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anderson Embers | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Sculpture. For the front half of a monumental centaur Reuben Robert Kramer, 24, was awarded the sculpture fellowship. So large was Fellow Kramer's centaur that he kept the rear part in Baltimore, showed it only by photographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prix de Rome | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

Ably performed by James Rennie and Madge Kennedy, Bridal Wise concerns itself with the tale of a horsey husband and his non-horsey wife whose marriage runs on the rocks because of their antipodal interests. After the divorce, Alan Burroughs marries a sort of female centaur. Joyce Burroughs mates with the family lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jun. 13, 1932 | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

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