Word: companionability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help. She looked, to a farm wife named Mrs. George Baker who was there, "very distressed." Mrs. Baker's husband got out his automobile, pushed the Denhardt car into his driveway. A passing motorist had offered to bring a new battery from town. The General and his companion settled down to wait...
...Straight from the Shoulder", the companion piece, contains such soul stirring situations as the resentment of a boy at his father's second marriage, and the danger a good citizen faces when be points out gangsters to the police...
...first importance to the U. S. art world for it was a full-size preliminary sketch for La Danse, the most famed mural decoration that Dealer Matisse's father, bearded Henri Matisse, ever did. Few U. S. art lovers have ever seen the original. With its companion piece, La Musique, another arrangement of pink nudes on green grass, it is one of the chief treasures of Moscow's Museum of Modern Western...
...unfinished group of the signing of the Treaty of Peace with England in 1783 from the Morgan LIbrary. Interesting because the subject is so seldom seen was a portrait of Grecian-nosed Theodosia Burr by John Vanderlyn. Beloved only child of Aaron Burr, she was her father's companion and housekeeper for years, married Governor Alston of South Carolina, and in 1812 disappeared mysteriously at sea on her way from Charleston to New York. For years, embittered Aaron Burr used to haunt Manhattan's Battery for news of her ship. Also on view was a portrait...
Hauling out the other Grecian mask, the University gives "Godfrey" a very gium companion by the name of "A Son Comes Home." It is mildly interesting to see Wallace Ford, a reporter, catch the villain of the piece, after having summed up the case as a matter of writing to every port in the country and saying. "If you see a man, stop him." It is also interesting to see that Mary Boland is a highly talented tragedienne, and she it is who puts the pathos in a mother's sacrificing her wicked son. But somehow one can't help...