Word: cern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keeps abreast of the foibles of the art world, but turns from them to pulsating scenes about him. No one is bewildered by Davidson sculpture. He builds no weird convocations of planes, no fever ish conceits of form. Like the sculptors of the Roman tribunes, his primary con cern is the search for character. The roster of Davidson subjects includes Anatole France, Feodor Chaliapin, Charles Gates Dawes, John Joseph Pershing, Wellington Koo, Woodrow Wilson, Marshal Foch, Georges Clemenceau. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference to see faces. When he forgot his pass he acted as a messenger in order...
...told me that the Cabinet of Premier Cerný-composed mostly of bureaucrats-had been faced with serious opposition from the German and Slovak minorities ever since its formation last March. The Agrarian element of these minorities had been conciliated a few months ago by increasing the grain duties; and now Premier Cerný was about to resign, in order that a Cabinet representative of the whole nation might at last be formed...
Suddenly, there was a touch of con cern in public sentiment. The Apothecary, the Laryngologist and the Physician issued a bulletin...