Word: descents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...15th and 16th Century anonymous religious paintings. But the reputation of Spain as an art centre rests entirely on the work of three great painters: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, Domenico Theotocopuli (El Greco), Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Of the three, Velazquez was of Portuguese descent and Theotocopuli a Greek, which leaves the glory of Spanish art to just one thoroughgoing Spaniard, Goya...
...Japan the Son of Heaven, last of 124 rulers in unbroken descent from the Son Goddess Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami, is never cartooned. The very notion freezes pious Japanese to the marrow and members of the Cabinet last week wailed: "This is terrible! Terrible!" Tension was heightened because His Majesty had been cartooned in the lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared...
Founder-Chairman Alexander Duncan of Commercial Credit looks and acts like a cinematic tycoon. A canny Kentuckian of Scottish descent, he is tall and slender, ruddy of face, commanding of presence. He rarely entertains, almost never allows himself a vacation. He started his first credit house in 1907, organized Commercial Credit in Baltimore in 1912 with a capital of $300,000. More than half Commercial Credit's total financing comes from the automobile business and the company estimates a profit of from $5 to $7 on each automobile transaction. It has official contracts with Chrysler and Packard. Last December...
...most interesting of minor U. S. writers, Lafcadio Hearn has never been widely read, nor has his strange career been fully and deeply explored. Of Greek and Irish descent, blind in one eye, Hearn arrived in New York in 1869. Later he lived in Cincinnati where he became involved in a scandal with a mulatto woman; in New Orleans where he won a small reputation as a scholar and journalist; in the West Indies, where he renounced Western civilization. In 1890 he settled in Japan, married a member of a distinguished Samurai family, became a Japanese citizen and professor...
...Department of Agriculture, if they knew of the impending "march," had made no mention of it to the Press. The descent on the marble halls of Government by 4,000 farmers from 25 states-a lobby unparalleled for size and sudden "spontaneity" - caught newshawks flatfooted...