Word: companion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hilaire Germain Edgard Degas, long years ago, standing in front of one of Mary Cassatt's paintings, turned with his slow, twisting smile to a companion. The remark was perhaps the highest compliment she everreceived-more satisfactory even than the one the Luxembourg paid her when it bought one of her paintings on behalf of the citizens of France. Degas, that superlative draughtsman, who alone of all painters has immortalized the beauty of awkwardness, knew what he was talking about. Miss Cassatt could draw. At that time she had not come under Degas' influence but had caught...
...Prince Leopold (winner in 1925), fourth with 192 miles. Great concern was felt for Pilot John A. Boettner of the Akron N. A. A., whose bag was known to have become waterlogged soon after entering the low-moving clouds, to have dropped to earth, bumped out Boettner's companion, H. W. Maxson, gone dragging off over a tilled field and then aloft again. But Boettner reported himself safe in Holland next morning...
...plot of the play deals with the enmity between Prince Hal, later Henry V, and Hotspur, a fiery noble with regal aspirations. Hal is a useless drinking companion of Falstaff and his band of blustering pickpockets. When civil war breaks out, Hal puts off his dissipation and kills Hotspur on the field of battle. Hal was played, intermittently well, by Basil Sydney, and Hotspur, for about the same values, by Philip Merivale. Peggy Wood, William Courtleigh, Blanche Ring, Rosamond Pinchot (as Prince John) were among the notables...
...wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident of a 24-hour glide with a passenger aboard...
...necessary and important that the English stage from 1800-1870 receive a thorough practical study in protest against the usual manner of disposing of nineteenth century drama, and this Prof. Watson has excellently accomplished in his sequel (actually of earlier composition) and companion volume to Prof. Thaler's "Shakespeare to Sheridan." Prof. Thaler's book is essentially one of information regarding the theatre itself--of facts concerning playwrights, players, managers, playhouses--rather than a consideration of the dramatic literature, which has been adequately covered for his period by Prof. Bernbaum, Prof. Nicoll, and others, in special histories. Prof. Watson...