Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, an outstanding contribution from New Mexico was the work of Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, whose paintings are so finely grained they suggest the surface of a highly polished piece of maple. This year, Artist Blumenschein's contribution was a populous piece called Ourselves and Taos Neighbors, in which celebrities like Mabel Dodge Luhan, the late D. H. Lawrence, Mr. & Mrs. Blumenschein, are planted as stiffly as figures in a family portrait in a maple-colored adobe interior. Typical of the surprises hidden among the 417 pieces in the show was the work of 42-year-old Novelist Ramon...
Last week in Montreal, Chief Justice Robert Alfred Ernest Greenshields of Superior Court set a new precedent by canceling an annulment. Before him was the case of a mixed marriage, performed by an Anglican minister, which was voided by Judge Alfred Forest, a Catholic, on the ground that the minister was incompetent to perform the marriage and because of a technicality about the witnesses. The Chief Justice, an Anglican, declared: "Such authority as the Church has in civil matters is given to it by the law of the land, and the Church and every church is subservient...
...bronze copy of the Discobolus of Myron, the gift of Ernest W. Longfellow '65, that stood on the lawn in front of the main entrance of the Hemenway gymnasium, will be set up in front of new buliding...
Faithfully, Editor Sedgwick had carried into the 20th Century the progressive editorial traditions established in the 19th. Under his editorship, the Atlantic startled its readers with Ernest Hemingway's Fifty Grand, which volatile Ray Long had rejected as too much for his more popular magazines, and Gertrude Stein's unorthodox Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The Atlantic welcomed controversial essays from Woodrow Wilson. Alfred E. Smith, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur E. Morgan, Herbert Hoover. But never did it forget that it was essentially the literary trustee of its early Boston contributors like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry...
...other biographies, Emil Ludwig takes factual material already at hand -in this case Ernest K. Lindley's The Roosevelt Revolution and Half Way with Roosevelt-draws his own "psychological" picture. No study of Franklin Roosevelt in house slippers, the result is something like an expensive, formal portrait by a visiting European painter, something like an official cinema shot...