Word: danae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director to have her fling before settling down to a good, but humdrum, existence. This story of a French girl, who works out her salvation by posing for the Madonna and acquiring some of her spiritual quality, might be effective if Charlie Chaplin directed it-and somebody besides Viola Dana played the role. But Lew Cody, Monte Blue and Marjorie Daw help very much in this story, which is The Miracle reversed...
Congratulations began to pour in at the Dawes homestead (in Marietta). He stayed there less than 24 hours after his nomination and then started for Chicago, which welcomed him with cheers. His wife and his two adopted children, Dana, 12 and Virginia, 10, met him. He hugged them all, went to his office at the Central Trust Co. for an hour, then went home to Evanston, puritanical northern suburb of Chicago, to which Mr. Dawes is something of a tin deity...
Governor Al Smith, it was believed, had chosen Franklin D. Roosevelt, his campaign manager, to nominate him?a sort of return compliment, since Governor Smith seconded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination for Vice President in 1920. For a seconder of his nomination, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, sister of Lady Astor, was suggested...
...American Review. He had bought the Review in 1899 and edited it until 1921, when he departed for the Court of St. James. It was already an ancient paper when he bought it- founded in 1815. On its roll of editors were such names as William Tudor, Richard H. Dana, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Adams, Henry Cabot Lodge, David A. Munro. During some 60 years of its existence the Review was a quarterly. Colonel Harvey proposes to return it to this periodicity. Its present monthly size will be increased by 48 pages. Beginning...
...annals of New York journalism have been filled in late years with accounts of publishers who have found it more expedient to unite than to remain apart, he is a brave man who would risk one more such enterprise. In the years between 1840 and 1870, when Bennett, Dana, Greeley, and Raymond loomed large in the public eye, there were places and needs for a multiplicity of newspapers. The world, figuratively speaking was much larger from the point of view of communication, and the profession was still so young that methods and means were not yet hardened to a universal...