Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workman lies on a sunny rock; one woman kneels beside him while another is climbing up from the fields below (see cut). For models Artist Kroll used a onetime ditchdigger and sculptor's assistant named Jim McClellan, Mrs. Demetrios, wife of Sculptor George Demetrios, a farmer's daughter named Olga. He named the canvas The Road From the Cove, sent it to Pittsburgh, where it was judged preeminent by an exacting jury: precise Surrealist Pierre Roy of France; British Muralist Alfred Kingsley Lawrence; ailing Edward Bruce, director of the first Federal Art Projects; convivial...
...turning an honest Scottish penny in commercial magazine illustration. Pride of the Illustrated London News last June was Muirhead Bone's four-hour pen & ink sketch of the Queen Mary leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage. Pride of Muirhead Bone are mural-panels by his son Stephen and daughter-in-law Mary, in the Queen Mary's library...
...proud of being a self-made man, who had been schooled intermittently in his youth, braiding straw in his father's farmhouse in Franklin, Mass, to earn his books, working his way through Brown University and Litchfield (Conn.) Law School. In 1832, when his wife Charlotte Messer, daughter of Brown's president, had died, Lawyer Mann's hair supposedly turned white in a single night and he became more reclusive and contemplative than ever...
...never of real love. But at the end of the day they confess all to each other, and the final curtain drops as they are affectionately holding hands between their twin beds. This section of the plot is the only complete cycle in the play. Catherine Hilton, the elder daughter, is last seen weeping from the bruises to her unreflected love, while Martin Hilton ends us definitely in love, but with no nupital climax. Even the new maid has a been whom she meets when she takes the bulldog out. When we dig below this surface disturbance of affairs...
...feel that Gregrannie must have exercised considerable mental agility merely to keep straight in her mind the large family in St. Luke's Place, Manhattan, over which she rules. It is a task likely to strain the patience of readers not half her years. For Gregrannie's daughter, Linda, has borne ten children at the beginning of Great Laughter, and these, with their wives and offspring, make up the cast of the book. One dies, leaving a widow, Carmella, who is beloved by two of the brothers. She bears a son to one of these, Chauncey, who, however...