Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke of Westminster decided to sell 50 paintings from his famed collection. The event is to take place at Christie's in London early in July. The collection includes works of Murillo, Teniers, Cuyp, Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt, Wouwerman, Van Dyke, Rubens, Gainsborough, Velasquez, Brouwer, Turner. The two examples of Rubens are the Adoration of the Magi and The Fathers of the Church...
Here are Dr. Henry Van Dyke's impressions of Dr. Fitch's novel, "None So Blind" (Macmillan). He says: "Last night I stole some hours from sleep for a quick 'first reading' and was well repaid," The book is full of life and vigor. I do not know of a better picture of 'student life' at Harvard; which, I guess, is not essentially different from the life at other Eastern-American universities. The particular quality of the book is its insight into the personal nature of the development of a boy into a man in college years...
John is a tall man, with tawny hair and a Van Dyke beard, given to bright neckties and tweed suits. In speaking of artists he said: "I do not think that great artists or painters are the product of any combined effort in a people to produce a masterpiece. Great artists happen," Of himself, he said, "I am trying to carry on the traditions of English painting...
...California heads the list of visiting instructors. Professor MacDonald is the author of numerous books on the study of English literature and is a frequent contributor to educational journals. In 1905 he won a prize in "Collier's" short story contest. Among other prominent visiting instructors are Walter Van Dyke Bingham, Professor of Psychology at Carnegle Institute of Technology; Charles Wendell David, G. '18, Associate Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College; Harlan Cameron Hines, Professor of Education at the University of California, and Arthur Stanley Pease, Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois...
...years, is suddenly forced out of a job and the brat brood is penniless. Immediately there is a general rallying round. The selfish brats map out lucrative business careers on the spot, matrimony is postponed and slender savings plugged into the breach in the domestic dyke...