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Word: foxe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scylla, a towering threatening rock capped by the colors of France. True to her attitude at that time, the fair maiden England is heedless of Charybdis, but is gazing fearfully at the rock and the sea dogs swarming around its base, representing, in ugly caricatures, the famous trio of Fox, Sheridan, and Priestly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS -- and -- CRITIQUES | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...second etching portrays a more personal scene in 1798. At a birthday party in honor of Fox, the Duke of Norfolk proposed such vehement toasts in favor of Parliamentary reform that he was dismissed by the Crown. This, too, Gillray has touched with insight and humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS -- and -- CRITIQUES | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...with the armies of the Tricolor. In one of his most elaborate and brilliant drawings, Gillray shows the thick-set Napoleon urging his fleet on; the chief interest, however, lies in the different reactions seen in the faces of the onlookers in England--Sheridan making a dramatic speech, and Fox hiding behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS -- and -- CRITIQUES | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Russell Muth (Fox) turned the crank though volcanic gas dizzied him and the woman pilot who was steering his plane round the crater of Vesuvius. As the plane hit a tree near the rim of the crater, he saved his pictures by throwing the camera into some brushwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsreelers | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Last week was announced the acquisition by Cinemagnate Fox of Loew's, Inc., and its producing subsidiary, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp., bringing the estimated value of Fox holdings to $225,000,000. Almost immediately, Fox acquired two additional theatre chains controlling 113 houses: Walter Reade Enterprises (15) and Schine Chain Theatres (98). Total of Fox-owned theatres: nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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