Word: ent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disguises for myself so that I can go to picture galleries and look . . . and think. . . ." Impressionism permanently affected him. His subjects were usually nobodies of all nationalities. From the age of 33, when the Luxem bourg purchased his cityscape La Neige, Artist Henri's reputation vaulted, his tal ent ripened slowly, continuously. He taught in Philadelphia, Paris, New York. His later years were spent at Manhattan's Art Students League, where hun dreds of students learned that this man with the sensitive Gallic features and wide-set, almost almond eyes, could stimu late their vision and would carefully...
...without loud complaint had the House tariff-makers ceased their activities with Schedule VII (Agricultural Products). But tariff-making is the oldest U. S. political game next to taxation. Every U. S. producer claims special consideration, paints a terrifying picture of his ruin by cheap foreign competition. Under insist ent pressure, the Ways & Means Com mittee as usual broke, gave ground, widened tariff revision to include many a nonagricultural product. It was these other increases which chiefly distressed the farmer...
...Manhattan, Professor Huber, manager of a troupe of fleas, conducted his performers from a burning building to the street with the loss of only one, J. Caesar, who did the gladiatorial act. Said a bystander to Professor Huber: "You must treat them gently to make them so obedi- ent." Said he: "I treat 'em gentle or I treat 'em rough according to their nature and their needs. They're artists...
...features were slowly maturing, hardening, this change was obscured by the fact that when one beheld the King, one's attention was monopolized by the little tufts of black. Not until the "dentist" put away his "tooth-brush"?not until the historic week when His Majesty w ent to Paris and there shaved off his mustache (TIME, Nov. 26)?did 12,000,000 Jugoslavs begin to recognize that his matured and resolute countenance is that of a dictator (see front cover...
...Tuesday the good news came. From Chicago, President George B. Everitt† wrote stockholders. Interesting was the promise that Jan. 1 would see 200 chain stores in operation. But transcend ent for traders was the common stock increase from 1,285,000 to 6,000,000 shares, giving stockholders the right to buy two new shares, at $17.50 each, for every share now held...