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Miss Ruth Davenport Registrar, and Miss Edith Stedman, Director or the Appointment Bureau, will pour...
...Amenities. In Davenport, Iowa, two employees on trial for stealing from their boss were cheered by the receipt of their annual bonus checks...
...filling the gap between the Sumerian palace and the Civil War White House Millia Davenport devoted seven years. The result of her labor of love will impress the couturier and fascinate the housewife. The Book of Costume is also more instructive than many a history book, because it does not stop at tracking flares and gussets down through the ages. It is a history of the ornaments used by-men & women to add the finishing touches to their apparel-enameled watches, canes, necklaces, lap dogs...
...Author Davenport, a costume and stage designer, is a first-rate researcher, and her chief sources are the western world's painting and sculpture. Such painters as Bruegel, Hogarth and Carpaccio, who filled their canvases with a crowd of characters and worked in every last detail of period settings, are her richest gold mines...
What is often comic, but always instructive about this book is Author Davenport's way of reversing the normal scale of values. No matter how largely they may figure, art, literature, history, the soul of man itself here becomes secondary to the prime concern-surface appearances. When Author Davenport looks at a medieval painting of the martyrdom of Saint Alban, she merely observes, with an artist's pure detachment, that the saint's collar "shows the new interest ... in the vertical line and in the center-front." In another such painting, Job's boils are ruthlessly...