Word: homing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after dinner-he for staying in, she for going outa night spent so distinctly to her own taste that at 5:30 a. m. Gilbert, still sitting up and still alone, got into his car and drove off at a furious pace into the Riviera dawn. Mrs. Gilbert came home, became excited, threw some things in a suitcase, went away somewhere. Reunited in Paris, they now refer to this incident as a "slight tiff." They are returning to the U. S. soon to make more pictures...
...significant of the so-called Mexican Renaissance, which has occurred with-in the past few decades. Several of Mexico's greatest living artists first went to Paris where they thought they were cubists, surrealists, neo-impressionists. But when they got tired of Art for Art's sake they went home and looked around. They saw that no use was being made of native material. The official artists were but feeble, academic imitators of the Spanish school of Zuloaga. Plainly it was impossible to superimpose Spain on Mexico...
...Steinach, 67, at his summer home near Vienna, was indignant and excited because again one of his scientific investigations had been incorrectly popularized. Were he a young medical graduate, he would have to fear for his professional reputation. As it is, he is a recognized endocrinologist and his vexation was against further obfuscation of the unlearned...
Died. Jesse Lynch Williams, playwright (Why Marry? Why Not?), author (Princeton Stories, The Stolen Story, Other Newspaper Stories); of a heart attack; at the home of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; in Herkimer...
George Ade, humorist (Fables in Slang), rose dripping from his bath tub to answer his telephone at his summer home near Brook, Ind. He skidded, crashed, skittered down the stairs, broke his left...