Word: earnest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Art Club. These artists are the Whigs of modern painting, an aesthetic Jacobin Club. Followers of the innovations of Derain and Picasso, their art is to intensify reality by warping it, to convince by deception. Notably successful among them are Judson Smith, landscape painter, Warren Wheelock, Earnest Fiene. The latter, with two canvases, Spring and Autumn, represents the most effective use of the Derainged perspective, making visible the spirit of these seasons in a bonfire of color as sober reproduction could never do. The work of these Woodstock artists was referred to by an English critic as "rather picayune...
...that Greene had given the impression that, to all Americans attending it, Oxford was a disappointment; that all were eager to be home again; that the Fabian Society (Socialist) was the British ideal most acceptable to Americans; that Ramsay MacDonald was to Americans the ideal British statesman. A heavyset, earnest young man arose, addressed the chair. Soft-voiced, but serious, this was one Edward Egan, Yale Rhodes Scholar at New College, incidentally the amateur heavyweight boxing champion of all Britain. Egan begged to inform the chair and its occupant that the sentiments thus expressed were not shared by other Americans...
...heavyset, earnest young...
...decided on October 11 that announcement should be made of the plan but nothing was announced. In short, the replies of the Administration have answered none of the questions asked. There is no alternative but to believe that the most earnest requests of Faculty, Alumni, and undergraduates are regarded by those in authority over the University plant as of little interest and no consequence. It is difficult to see how these men, who are told by the appeals for the Alumni Fund that they are the real strength of Yale and that her future must depend on their loyal...
Princeton, N. J., November 4.--The final stages of practice for the game with Harvard started in earnest today. Coach Roper worked his first and second teams hard till long after dark. Punting, drop kicking, individual position drill, dummy practice and comprehensive offensive and defensive movements were taken up and treated in turn...