Word: epstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...constitutional; bright-cheeked British children who had run away from their Nannas, paused to stare and listen, moved along, were replaced by others. So all day, in Hyde Park, people came and went, but the voice of Somerville Hague, sculptor, went on forever. Ensconced before Jacob Epstein's Memorial for W. H. Hudson* (TIME, June 1), fortified with a box of assorted sandwiches and mobled in a large ulster, he stated that he did not like Sculptor Epstein's conception of Rima, the wood nymph. "Look at it. ... Did you ever see such a thing in the name...
House of Commons: ¶ Commander Locker-Lampson, Under Secretary for Home Affairs, was asked by an irate private member who was responsible for selecting Jacob Epstein's memorial to William H. Hudson, the naturalist, whose stone effigy in panel (TIME, June 1, ART) is situate in Hyde Park. Comdr. Lampson replied: "The First Commissioner of Public Works in the Labor Government [Rt. Hon. F. W. Jowett]." A Labor Member hastened to say that a large number of people thought the memorial was distinguished and appropriate. Several Conservatives thought otherwise. One: That all memorials likely to cause acrimonious discussion...
...Sever 2 Feinberg-Leonard Sever 5 Lessa-Sava Sever 6 Saxton-Wright Sever 7 Chemistry 23 Emerson F Class. Archaeology 1b Server 30 Comp. Literature 35 Emerson F Economics A Mr. Bober, A, C, F, P New Lect. Hall Mr. Chamberlin, I, K, Q, W New Lect. Hall Mr. Epstein, D, G, R, X Harvard 6 Mr. Heath, H, S, V New Lect. Hall Mr. Mason, N, T Harvard 2 Mr. Opie, M, O New Lect. Hall Mr. Taylor, E, L, U Harvard 5 Economics 1b Albert-Escher Sever 8 Feist-Whitehouse Sever 11 Economics 4b Geol. Lect. Rm. Fine...
...quoth Jacob Epstein, "American-born Polish Jew." Now a man of 45, he has had a stormy career...
...commissioned by architects to do 18 statues for a building on the Strand. He supplied 18 heroic nudes in all postures. The public screamed. Epstein remarked : "The Capital of the British Empire is so used to statues in frock coats and trousers that these struck them as brutal truth." He was commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal...