Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painted the patio (inside court) of the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City, refusing all recompense above a common laborer's wage. There are 138 murals in the court. Most of them describe feasts, ceremonies, daily employments, of native Indians. Some show U. S. millionaires drinking champagne (except John D. Rockefeller, who sips milk). The Mexican Minister of Finance is pic tured eating gold pieces. Little is the recognition given these crea tions; no color reproductions of them have been made. Yet, according to Lee Simonson, who has lately visited Russia to inspect the work of modernist painters...
...holidays your telegram did not reach us until July 5. We wired you immediately that Miss Fuller has never been married and that Mr. Stedman has been dead for years. Miss Fuller was Mr. Stedman's secretary and was with him all the last years preceding his death, except when temporarily relieved by Miss Zona Gale...
...Elmira Goodhue, the President's mother-in-law, said: " I know nothing of the President's policies except what I read in the newspapers...
...indirectly, for playing or teaching the game; nor because of his skill as a golfer received any remuneration from any firm dealing in goods relating to the game; nor played for a money prize. Voigt has not lent his name or likeness for the advertisement or sale of anything except as in the usual course of business; nor permitted Lis name to be advertised or published for pay as the author of books or articles on golf of which he is not actually the author. He has not received any consideration because of his skill at the game...
...that Rob Jones has given up swearing (audibly) after bad shots, now that he no longer eats pie á la mode during tournaments, now that he has twice won every major title except the British amateur and established medal-play records unapproached in history, it is interesting to learn that he?...