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...Golden Rose has rarely consisted of a single rose. The one given to Queen Elizabeth has 19 buds and full-blown blossoms, and 290 leaves. Petals and leaves the Pope's cunning goldsmiths have beaten out of 22-carat gold, just as some 400 years ago self-righteous, scapegrace Goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini beat out ingenious knicknacks for Giulio de' Medici (Pope Clement VII). These smiths have tinted lightly the petals of this Rose with pink, the leaves with green, so that the spray glistens with a heart-stopping iridescence of varied movement and light. To aid verisimilitude the spray contains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golden Rose | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...Wesleyan team is made up of Spencer Ruder '26, and Alden Goldsmith '26, with Arthur Weber '29, as an alternate. The judges of the debate chosen are Professor Roy Davis G. '02, of Boston University, Judge E. A. Counthan '03, of Cambridge, and Professor Joseph Cornors of Emerson College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY DEBATERS WILL BATTLE TWO FOES | 1/15/1926 | See Source »

...finally the goldsmith worked a mask of head and shoulders, a good likeness, a snug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diadem | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

From Aaron "who began his career well, as brother of Moses, but made the fatal mistake of trying to combine the goldsmith's craft with religion," to Zipporah, "the Midianite wife of Moses," this book embraces many characters that appear in the modern Who's Who under a different guise; several names, indeed, may be found in both books. In the Rev. Allen's, the name of Baruch belongs to "a young nobleman"; Cain, says Author Allen, is the same name as Smith. David gets the most space, nigh four pages; Paul is second, Moses third. Goliath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who's Who | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

This book contains four long poems, Dionysus in Doubt, Genevieve and Alexandra, Mortmain, Demos and Dionysus, elaborate philosophic acros tics, graphs of spiritual collisions; many sonnets, some like a goldsmith's gargoyles, precise in horror, some mere laconic footnotes to metaphysical debate, some that are compressed short stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Precis Grotesques* | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

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