Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow's Ecole des Beaux Arts, now a socialite U. S. portraitist. Slickly painted, showing a very refined young lady posed theatrically on tiptoe in the theatre wing, it won more than twice as many votes as its nearest competitor, Alice Through the Black Bottle, by Charles S. Chapman, another canvas missed by most professional critics. Impressed, the Toledo Art Museum invited Mr. Zakharov's Ballerina to its annual summer show of U. S. paintings...
When famed Feminist Carrie Chapman Catt saw that the fight for woman suffrage in the U. S. was about to be won. she journeyed to the Philippine Islands in 1913 and publicly proposed suffrage for her little brown sisters. Male Filipinos laughed derisively. Their women had been virtual slaves in their homes until the Philippines came under U. S. rule...
Winner of first place in the English Sophmore Tutorial Prize contest, announced yesterday was Joseph W. Chapman '39 who was awarded $50 worth of books for his tutorial essay entitled "Sir Thomas More...
...would not say what he paid for the egg but a fair guess is $10,000. It is about a foot long, about ten inches across, ivory-colored, pockmarked by sand and insects. Much bigger than the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, its shell is ⅛ in. thick, weighs 6 lb., must have weighed 24 lb. when the mother bird laid it. Aepyornis titan did not become extinct until after the Glacial Ages, which is almost yesterday as geological time goes. Little is known of its habits, except that it ate vegetable matter, probably...
Died. Ethnologist Stephen Chapman Simms, 73, director of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History since 1928, Portuguese Consul at Chicago since 1918; of heart disease; in Chicago...