Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he worked as a newspaper artist, followed a regiment in the Carranza-Villa revolution. As a syndicate worker, he covered patio walls, stairways and crypts with enormous frescoes of a beardless Christ bearing a great cross, Saint Francis of Assisi bowing to kiss a leper, caricatures of bourgeoise ladies and their bloated escorts trampling up to Heaven on the bodies of peons. These pictures were especially mutilated...
Died. Miss Josephine Crist Delmonko, last of her name to operate the old time (defunct since 1923) Manhattan restaurant which her great-grand-uncle founded; in Mount Kisco...
...began to write when he found himself $10,000 in debt. Taunted throughout youth for his bastardy, his works contained preachments against adultery, seduction. He gained most fame from his plays (La Dame anx Camclias, Idces de Madame Aubray, La Femmc de Claude, L'Etrangcrc) in which such great actors as Sarah Bernhardt, Benoit Constant Coquelin and Jean Mounet-Sully appeared. In 1874 he was elected to the French Academy, a distinction which his father never achieved...
...sophomores U. S. history, sociology. From the experimental college they were to enter the University's junior class (TIME, June 18. Sept. 10, 1928). This year the first batch of experiments will be thrown in with the general run of undergraduates. President Glenn Frank, Dr. Meiklejohn's great & good friend, who sponsored the experimental college, will soon have proof of his pet pedagogical pudding...
Walter P. Chrysler, motor maker, offered to build two swimming pools, some bathhouses and a long pier on an eight-acre estate, once Actress Olga Petrova's, owned by him at Great Neck, L. I., and also to throw in $15,000 cash and trade the Petrova for a two-acre public beach adjoining his own home. Great Neck refused...