Word: dix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed young gentlewoman from Tennessee. "Make its base of fresh, crisp ideas. Over them pour a dressing mixed of oil of kindness, the vinegar of satire, the salt of wit, and a dash of the paprika of doing things." They also decided they would henceforth call Mrs. Gilmer, "Dorothy Dix...
Last week famed Dorothy Dix, now 66, was resting at her country place near Pass Christian, Miss. As soon as she could go to New Orleans, three big parties, organized respectively by the Times-Picayune, the Tulane University School of Journalism and her friends, were to honor her four decades of newspaper work, during which time her journalistic salad had grown from a side dish in one New Orleans paper to a main course in 200 throughout the world. Hired in 1896 for $5 a week and now retained for $70,000 a year as personal counselor to some...
...soir Monsieur le professeur Morize assistera a un diner apres lequel il nous dira quelques mots. Tout membre de l'universite qui s'interesserait sera le bienvenue. La reunion aura lieu dans le Lowell House Common Room a dix heures vingt precises...
...picture Dix put a touch of humor. Five men stand with an amazing indifference and nonchalance before a savage looking officer who has evidently done his best to call them to attention. They are of all sizes and shapes, and their ragged uniforms either hang off them limply or are far too small. But even this humor has a grim side, for the faces of the soldiers plainly show evidence of their privations and sufferings...
That all the etchings have such force and realism may be attributed to the fact that Otto Dix actually saw such scenes while serving as a German soldier in the World War and that he had the courage to reproduce exactly everything stored in his memory when he started work on them...