Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawyers. Henri Torres, chief counsel for the defense, florid, bloated, dynamic, put his histrionic abilities to the test when, leaping past his colleagues into the middle of the courtroom, he brandished a revolver, produced from under his voluminous black gown. Shrieks of terror mingled with gasps met this display. Flappers sat with blanched faces; bewhiskered Hebrews rocked back and forth with supressed excitement; Ukrainians, more pallid than ever, glanced nervously through their narrow eyes. Maitre Torres, aiming at a chair, pulled the trigger?there was a dull click, followed by sighs of relief. He was attempting to prove that...
...Minneapolis Symphony announced a fresh guarantee of more than $175,000 to assure its existence for the next three years Henri Verbrugghen will conduct the 16 concerts at home, the same series in St. Paul, will lead on Nov. 4 the identical program given 25 years before with Soprano Dusolina Giannini, the soloist, instead of her teacher, Marcella Sembrich...
Last week the townspeople and critics moved through the Institute gallery with a soft murmuring whistle that is peculiar to museums and to the carpeted anterooms of cinema theatres. Near the three prize-winning pictures-a "Still Life" by Henri Matisse, "Motherhood" by Anto Carte, Andrew Dasburg's "Poppies"-there were small, stirring ponds of faces. There were puddles of them under many other pictures: Italian Antonio Donghi's study of three enigmatic figures, called "Carnival," which received first honorable mention; "Two Figures," languid, graceful girls painted by Bernard Karfiol of Manhattan, honorable mention. Then there were...
...first prize ($1,500) they awarded to a still life by Henri Matisse. Perhaps it was unfortunate that the highest honors should fall to a Frenchman whose name is a legend in modern painting; but the picture, in which great brilliant fruits and flowers coiled themselves into a pattern like the graph of a sunset, made the award imperative...
Next day Saul G. Bron, Chairman of the Amtorg Trading Corp., a Bolshevik concern trading in the U. S., declared: "Sir Henri Deterding regards the approaching tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Soviet Government in Russia as the proper time to make still another prediction that the Soviet Union is headed toward disaster. No one taking note of Deterding's propaganda can escape the conviction that this is really the most inappropriate moment to make such a prediction...