Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Manship. Edward McCartan, Robert Tait McKenzie, Charles Gary Rumsey, Mahonri Young, William Zorach. Those who inspected them were in full accord with Borough President Henry Hesterberg of Brooklyn, who in his opening address made the forthright comment: "This to my mind is a very great proposition." But fine, frequent and varied as are its temporary exhibits, it is Brooklyn Museum's permanent collections which sustain its reputation. Among these: the Avery collection of Chinese cloissonne; a collection of Xapoleana unsurpassed in the U. S., donated by the late Dean Marion Reilly of Bryn Mawr College: the American rooms...
...neat word-pattern, it is necessary to eliminate the matter which does not accord with our preconceived hypothesis. We will see proof for our statement in everyone we meet, and quite ignore the opposing evidence which is apt to be every bit as obvious and sometimes even more frequent...
...prisoner was spirited to Purandhar Military Sanitarium at the salubrious altitude of 4,500 ft. There every day, whether he liked it or not, St. Gandhi received a tender but thorough physical examination by a corps of British physicians. As during the illness of George V, they issued frequent bulletins, but in this case to the effect that "for a man of his age" (61), St. Gandhi's health seemed as near perfect as could possibly be expected...
...romantic daughter, all making the Grand Tour for the first time. Ada Beats the Drum is concerned with the antics of Mr. & Mrs. Hubbard (of Keokuk, Iowa) abroad. Having rented a villa in the south of France, Mother Hubbard (Mary Boland) encourages her husband, without much trouble, to frequent the local bars in the hope that he will bring home cultured "foreigners." But Mr. Hubbard's barroom friendships are consistently formed with other Americans and Mrs. Hubbard finally strikes a bargain with the village priest: if he will introduce her to some natives, she will give his parish some...
Just 2,000 years ago come October 15, was born on a farm near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro, greatest Roman poet, suave and brilliant favorite of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, frequent guest of Tycoon Maecenas. From now on until Virgil's 2,000th birthday in October Italian gardeners will be furiously busy planting the Lucus Virgili or "Virgilian Wood," a great new park on the outskirts of Mantua, a modern version of the sacred groves of the ancient Romans, who planted groves of trees which in aspiring to heaven might honor their gods, goddesses. Because Poet Virgil mentioned...