Word: chase
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Bravura was the word for Giovanni Boldini, whose society paintings in the period from 1890 to 1910 were the quintessence which John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Howard Chandler Christy and Charles Dana Gibson diluted, in ascending order of popularity, descending order of excellence. Last week at the Newhouse Galleries Manhattanites were surprised and seduced by the 68 brilliant, relatively intimate paintings, crayons and drawings which the 89-year-old Italian left in his Paris studio at his death in 1931. In his smaller works (minimum price: $400 for a sketch) Boldini showed a direct mastery of the Proustian atmospheres...
This attitude annoys scientists. Science, say they, is doing all right; the fault lies with statesmen, teachers, economists, philosophers, writers who have not caught up to science. On behalf of these irate scientists Stuart Chase spoke out in The Tyranny of Words (TIME, Jan. 24), blamed the world's ills on the fact that people live by nonscientific words and principles...
Hardly one fox terrier owner in ten knows that the historic mission of his dog is to chase foxes down their holes and bring them out. Nowadays not one fox terrier in a hundred does his job. But fortnight ago at Farley, Iowa, Farmer Emmet Simon, hunting with his two terriers-Tuffy and her 5-year-old daughter Spotty-sent them into a fox's den. Tuffy came out, but not Spotty. She had been trapped by a rolling stone...
...America" William E. Blatz, director of the St. George's School for child Study, University of Toronto; the Reverend Mr. George Johnson, Professor of Education, Catholic University of America, and director of the Department of Education, National Catholic Welfare Conference; Professor Arthur O. Norton, of Wellesley; Mary Ellen Chase, Head of the English Department of Smith College...
Announcement of the election of Thomas W. Wright, '41, as captain of the Freshman fencing team was made yesterday afternoon. Wright, a resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland, lives in Wigglesworth J-22 at college...