Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hair, on forehead, cheeks, and lips, so that little flesh remained visible, and the life was settled in two fiery spots. This concentration of expression in the few elementary features of shape, hair, and eyes made the head a magnificent subject for painting. Rembrandt should have painted it. William Hunt would have done it best justice among our own painters...
Newspaper readers remarked last week the nearly simultaneous announcements of a "Genius School" at Johns Hopkins University and a "Genius Hunt'' at the Edison laboratories in West Orange, N. J. Mr. Edison, who is in Fort Myer, Fla., and has often been called a genius, did not deny that genius was what he was hunting. But from Johns Hopkins went a protest to the press: "Please note that we have not used the word 'genius' once in our plan. We would appreciate it if you would avoid the use of this word, since it is likely...
...When in Northfield. Ohio, he stays at his summer home (the summer home of Tireman Seiberling is also in Northfield). When in England (which he visited last summer) he rented a. spacious estate, entertained on royal scale. He is a collector of books on sports and supports the Northfield Hunt Club. From faces, Broker Eaton likes to deduce character, studies physiognomies with attentive eye. Broker Eaton and his associates (loosely referred to as the "Eaton interests") have holdings in Republic Iron & Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Inland Steel, Central Alloy Steel & Otis Steel?a steel group with an aggregate ingot capacity...
...seamed above his sparse and fragile body. Mistress of precious intellection and writer of what seems gibberish to most readers, Gertrude Stein is shown with a face rugged, calm, confident above a stolid mass which scarcely defines itself as a body. There are many other works by individual chisellers, Hunt Diederich, Daniel Chester French, the late Emil Fuchs, John Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Leo Lentelli, Henry Augustus Lukeman, Edward McCartan, Eli Nadelman, the Piccirilli brothers, Lorado Taft, William Zorach. . . . If the modern U. S. lacks the glory of a sculptural tradition as deeply embedded and fertile as the Classic or Gothic...
...manners being adopted is often ludicrous. The African negro has no deity, but, in its place, a host of superstitions. These assume every possible form and apply to every thing. For instance, the wife of the chief is supposed to spit on the gun to insure success in the hunt. When I once failed to bag my game it was suggested that one of the women had failed to spit, and should be imprisoned! In another case the same man who drives a Ford in the afternoon may feel secure from a snake bite if the medicine man pretends...