Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That Mr. Loree would abandon his fifth trunk system plan. (TIME, April 27, 1925 et...
...story concerns a remarkably decent young Austrian officer who loses considerably more than he can pay at a game which has points of similarity, if it is not really the common variety, of Vingt-et-un. The account of his first night's gaming is the high point of the narrative. Willie is not an inveterate gambler, in fact he is naive to the point of ignorance. Temperamentally he is a graceful loser, but fundamentally he is at a loss to cope with the situation. From the general nature of Schnitzler's work, the tremendous coincidence of Fate...
Minister of Commerce Bokanowski is still remembered in Washington, D. C., as perhaps the most broadminded and conciliatory member of the French debt commission which came abortively to the U. S., chairmanned by brilliant but brittle-tempered Joseph Caillaux (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925, et seq.). In France Barrister Bokanowski is not only potent in the councils of financiers but is rated as an authentic patron of the bold, new movement in French art and decoration. Following his tilt in the Chamber over oil, last week (see col. 1), he took unto himself a pen and signed a new trade treaty...
...Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. James A. Stillman, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mrs. W. R. Hearst, and many another such-had in most cases been flattered by their imagists. There was, however, one room which had been made into a fold for old portraits of women, by Reynolds, Romney, Stuart, West et al. The exhibit was notable for the excellent paintings which it contained; also because no art gallery has ever before held an exhibition of the portraits of Women without...
...Annex Building at Jordan Marsh's to see the collection of some two hundred modern French paintings which forms part of the general exposition of Art in Trade now in progress throughout the store. The paintings are shown under the official auspices of the Association Francaise d'Expansion et d'Echanges Artistiques and are a selection of works shown in Paris in the Salon d'Automne. They are all by contemporary French artists. With possible exceptions like Andre, Denis, d'Espagnat, Vlaminck, there are few names that approach being famous; in fact unless one has followed modern French exhibitions rather...