Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest interpreter of modern times,'and perhaps of any age, was Gustave Henri Camerlynck. Death found him, last week, in Paris, five days after he had taken to bed with influenza. As Chief Interpreter of the Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the First Dawes Committee, Professor Camerlynck received the personal thanks of such statesmen as David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. He was to have interpreted for the new Second Dawes Committee (see col. 2). As illness stole upon him last fortnight, Professor Camerlynck interpreted, for the last time, between Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France...
Buried in the musty minutes of the Washington Conference lies perhaps the perfect tribute to Gustave Henri Camerlynck-his rightful epitaph. As the Conference was about to adjourn, Arthur James Balfour. Chief of the British Delegation, rose with his usual majestic deliberation and sonorously addressed the Delegates...
Prizes, however, were awarded to work in fresh, distinctive modes. Robert Henri, bright, sketchy painter of children whose eyes would pop at dolls and toy engines, whose lips would pucker wetly at lollypops, won the Temple Gold Medal for painting with his fluffy, serious Wee Woman. A lean, angular and sour ancient in a dark figured dress, called Madame du Tarte, won for Richard Lahey the Carol Beck Medal for portraiture. Bruce Moore's Black Panther, in savage, undulating stride, won the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture...
...village of Latti in the Caucasian mountains, last fortnight, Henri Barbusse, French author, discovered a peasant named Nikolai Andreyevich Shapkofski who has a social insurance card showing that he is 146 years old and entitled to draw a pension of 50 rubles ($27.50) a month. Peasant Shapkofski has only one tooth left and therefore does not eat as heartily as he did a few years ago. But he still drinks plenty of wine. His last child, a daughter, was born when he was 120 years...
...charitable maintenance of mentally deficient children. The Nobel Prize, established in 1896 by the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, consists of five annual awards?one of them for "idealistic literature." Notable recipients have been Kipling, Maeterlinck, Tagore, Knut Hamsun, Anatole France, Yeats, Shaw, Henri Bergson...