Word: encomiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past nine months critics have been writing estimates of John Singer Sargent. All that can be said about a great man in the period immediately following his death has been said; but more eloquent than any encomium were the fantastic prices for his pictures at the recent London sale...
...McLean's encomium of the former Ambassador to Great Britain was written in announcing the fact that Mr. Harvey would become "editorial director" of The Washington Post, one of Mr. McLean's properties...
ZANDER THE GREAT-Alice Brady attracts much critical encomium in an amusing if conventional comedy concerning bootleggers and an innocent child whose naivete reforms them...
ZANDER THE GREAT?Alice Brady attracts much critical encomium in an amusing if conventional comedy concerning bootleggers and an innocent che-ild whose naiveté reforms them...
...these words the "average American" is apt to launch into an encomium of the artists which his country has produced: French, St. Gaudens, Stuart, Sargent, and a host of others. And he will point out that there are schools of art all over our country, and even schools for Americans in foreign countries. One of these, not yet completed, is in the very center of Paris, where a group of Americans are negotiating the purchase of the old "Hotel de Lauzun". Here, on the He St. Louis, an "American Academy of Paris" may be developed, with its home...