Word: hang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire collection is hung under two general placards, Imaginary and Real. In the first row, all of them caricatures, hang sundry types of mankind which it has been Mr. Boyd's fortune to encounter or divine-Aesthete: Model 1924, A Literary Lady, A Literary Enthusiast, A Critic, A Liberal, A Synthetic Gael, The second row is subplacarded Impressions-brief sketches of Cabell, Hergesheimer, G. B. Shaw and others; and Close-Ups -the big pieces of the exhibit, presenting among others George Jean Nathan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Moore and Mr. Boyd's countrymen -Yeats, Stephens and George...
...give. Quite explicable is Mr. Hassam's amaze at this last straw dropped so courteously on his already prodigious load of honors. The present portrait, painted several years ago, previously won the Philadelphia Art Club Gold Medal, though it has never before been exhibited in Manhattan. His pictures hang in over 20 museums. In 1920 alone, he received 25 important medals. Among his best-known pictures are: Church at Old Lyme, Isles of Shoals, June Idylle, A Rainy Night, Gloucester Harbor...
Lady Astor, asked about the old cry of "hang the Kaiser" : "I think it is far worse than death for a man who thinks he was sent from Heaven to rule the world to be locked up in a Dutch village with a dull wife...
...systems of education are mere aids, and not means. In every case education must be self-imposed. If the English system is to be defended by citing Matthew Arnold, the Harvard system need not hang its head when it points to Emerson, William James, and Roosevelt...
...Hang such mud, anyway! Three cheers for the house on the right, 750 times! Ditto for house on left, 700 times! Ladies in the balcony, 50 each! Ladies with Roman candles, three! Contemplative peeler on left, one! Bully for the man who treated to coffee...