Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until the end of the war the school of English at Oxford was comparatively small, but today it numbers about 300 men who are reading in English literature at the University. As it exists today it is largely the creation of the late Sir Walter Raleigh, who was a professor at Oxford from 1904 to 1919. When the school was started people feared that it would become a school of 'literary lounging', therefore there has been a good deal of the stiffening of the scholarship of English literature of late...
...theater's most familiar scenes, for there is scarcely a situation that has not become painfully hackneyed through years of repetition; and their quality is not improved by the latest transmission. With such material the struggles of Mr. Faversham and, his supporting company to infuse life into the creation never achieve more than a few brief moments of success...
...been eagerly collected. There have been stories of his private island in the North Sea, of his apartments in Manhattan, Paris, Berlin, of his never carrying matches, of the statue of Diana in the courtyard of his home office. Herr Kreuger has all the qualities necessary for the creation of a legend. He is remote; he is powerful; he is-to the anti-monopolist- sinister. Yet Herr Kreuger has not consciously made himself a Mystery Man and no great secret have been the facts of his personal or corporate life. Simplest division of his adult career would be threefold...
...home las' week...What?...Sho that's all Ah got...they screw-the real ones on...Ah rockon they need the protection...they fall so easily...? men now are different. They know it all...Why you'd think they'd all had front row seats at the creation'n showed Gawd what was wrong...They're smooth!...And when they dance they sho don't take that Present Ahms attitude of the Ahmy...Anything but!...Ah love Hahvud men...they know so much, an' they look twice as much as they know...'n' when you go ridin' with 'em...well...
...Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors" and offered to decorate buildings in a true Mexican style. With Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) as mas ter they received a contract to paint murals for the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. For their motive they chose the Creation of the World, which was executed in monumental scale with figures twice lifesize. Unlike polite muralists of other countries their colors were not pastel tints but sombre browns, flashing reds and greens...