Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent, Albert Sterner, Tony Sarg, Arthur B. Davies, George W. Bellows, Robert Henri, William and Margaret Zorach are among the artists who have been asked to enter in a competition for a "peace Christmas card" to foster international cooperation to prevent war, under the auspices of the National League of Women Voters. The best design will be chosen in January by a committee including Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph Pennell, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. Three prizes of $500 to $2,500 will be awarded. The card will be put on sale for Christmas...
...appearance in English of The Life of the Scorpion,* the capstone in the great ten-volume series of Souvenirs Entomologiques, together with the centenary of his birth (1823) brings to mind again the life labor of Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion...
...Henri Fabre, by his kinsman, the Abbé Augustin Fabre (Dodd Mead, $2.50); The Human Side of Fabre, by Percy F. Bicknell (Century, $2.50); This Earth of Ours, a children's geology by Fabre (Century...
...Cateau, France, Henri Mailer, the Mayor, posted a bulletin on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville...
...Premier Viviani of France appeared on behalf of Mr. Frank J. Gould when he unsuccessfully sought a temporary injunction to restrain his divorced wife. Edith Kelly Gould, from blazoning the Gould name on three-foot posters along Paris boulevards in advertisement of her engagement at a popular music hall. Henri Robert appeared for the defendant...