Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some white women who had paid $100 as patrons of the Council failed to receive tickets to the White House reception. Their desire to see the President had been underestimated. They got tickets for the next day.
Because these painters have grown up under identical influences, and, indeed, influenced each other, the differences in their work are psychological rather than artistic. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud would have studied with cries of joy their respective pictures entitled The Bathers. Feitelson's nudes repose in a rhythm of dissolving, eager...
But the zeal of the reformer always involves a desire to undertake more than can be accomplished, and the International Council is no exception to the rule. Even by "concentrating on a few large centers of production" the women can do no more than utter a few feeble protests at...
Sentiment has played a larger part in the affairs of the American merchant marine than in any other issue of national importance. In the last decades Americans have become great travellers, and the thrill of seeing the American flag in a foreign port has become the experience of many millions...
The much maligned Harvard indifference may be conjured up as the reason for last night's episode. But in this case "indifference" has defeated its own ends. It is a spirit occasioned by the desire of men in the College to live their own lives, to make the best possible...