Word: cupidities
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...Night Watch had a hole torn in it. Last year in the same museum a little Dutchman axed Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson (TIME, March 2, 1931). On March 10, 1914 May Richardson, famed suffraget, pulled a hatchet from her muff and slashed Velazquez's Venus and Cupid in London's National Gallery as a protest against the jailing of Emmeline Pankhurst. Until 1845 the beautiful Portland Vase in the British Museum was crackless. Then one William Lloyd suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, shattered it into pieces which were painstakingly fastened together again. In 1927 one George...
...also set songs by the wives of U. S. Presidents- TIME. Nov. 16), it was performed last week on NBC's Pil grim Program (studio program). Excerpts : Oh, Ye Gods why should my Poor Resistless Heart Stand to oppose thy might and power, At last surrender to Cupid's feather'd Dart, And now lays bleeding every h-o-u-r In deluding slee pings let my Eyelids close, That in an enraptured d-r-e-a-m I may, In a soft lulling sleep and gentle re pose, Possess those joys denied...
...Film Fun, Screen Romances, Modern Romances, Modern Screen, War Stories, War Birds, War Aces, Western Romances, All Western Stories, Sweetheart Stories, Cupid's Diary, I Confess, Ballyhoo, Hullabaloo...
Duke University's most popular man is bright-faced, bright-eyed, cupid-smiling little Dr. Robert Lee ("Bobby") Flowers, secretary and treasurer of the University since 1910 and contact-man with the Duke Endowment. A graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, he has taught mathematics at Trinity since 1892. When "Buck" Duke began to plan his great Endowment, Dr. Flowers hustled off with Dr. Few to Charlotte, N. C. to make sug- gestions. And he it was who, when Trinity decided to change its name and move its campus, roamed about the countryside looking for a suitable site, selected...
...Marriage," announced cupid-like Mr. Whiteman in Chicago, "is a middle-class institution. At any rate, it seems to work best for those of the average mode, somewhere between the hodcarrier and the banker...