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Word: devotedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Henri was not an elegant, sensational painter like the late John Singer Sargent, nor a trenchant controversialist like the late Joseph Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Death of Henri | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Riviera is the title of the show-window display in the department store where Mr. Misch struts as floorwalker. A salesgirl, first devoted to Mr. Misch, leaves him to go with the store-owner to the real Riviera.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Wabash Plan. The opening of the present week saw another disturbance of the rail status quo, and again the movement was pro-Pennsylvania and anti-Baltimore & Ohio. The Wabash Railway proposed a plan which aimed at creating a 7,044-mile system with the 2,400-mile Wabash as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ford to Penn | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

In Brazil more than anywhere else the Galveston contest was treated as an international affair of first importance. For weeks Rio de Janeiro papers had devoted entire front pages to the daily doings of Miss Brazil (svelte Olga Bergamini De Sa ?TIME, June 10). On the night of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lovely Lisl | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Midway in time between these two extremes, the ear has brought to Harvard a large collection of eighteenth century English fiction Some of these books have been "collector's items," additions to the shelves devoted to the outstanding literary lights, but by far the more important portion comprises long forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winship Reviews Recent Acquisitions Exhibited in Widener Treasure Room; Good Fortune Features Current Year | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

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