Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ The episode referred to by the Edmund Duffy caricature was when Nominee Curtis was heckled at Spencer, Iowa (TIME, Oct. 1). The quotation as given by Duffy is inaccurate. Nominee Curtis, vexed by questions about something he had already explained, cried: "I guess you are too dumb to understand...
¶ Cartoonist Charles Henry Sykes has been Life's political brush since 1922. Since 1911 he has drawn for the newspapers of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis.
In Philadelphia last week the Curtis Institute of Music* broke all precedent and began its fifth season on a purely scholarship basis. No tuition fees were accepted, musical merit was sole entrance requirement. Again is Pianist Josef Casimir Hofman director.
*Endowed with $12,500,000 by Mary Louise Curtis Bok, wife of Publisher Edward William Bok, in memory of her mother, the late Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis.
Hoarse as a crow, his right hand in bandages, Nominee Curtis arrived in Chicago from his Western stumping trip. He had had two days' rest at home, in Kansas, but was still "very, very tired." Nevertheless, he said to the Speakers' Bureau: "Use me where I can do...