Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painters of highly unequal merit, were accustomed to use their brushes, as though they had been valets' whiskbrooms, upon the handsome exteriors of fashionable people in Manhattan and elsewhere. Knoedler's Gallery is largely responsible for the change. Since the time when its senior partner began to import the work of foreign celebrities, native workmanship became less socially desirable. U. S. persons, having arrived at the pinnacle of pretension which permits them to order portraits, would prefer to have themselves painted by a portrayer of dukes or princes. Hence U. S. portraitists, able though they...
From the far depths of Central Asia, from Tashkent whence great Tamburlaine's hordes of horsemen pounded to conquer their known world, went news last week more significant in import than in fact...
Thorough frisking by detectives of their prey showed that all 42 of the creatures arrested lacked certificates showing that the legal taxes and import duties had been paid upon their diamonds. With anguished faces and painful stomachs, they watched while unswallowed diamonds to a total weight of 2,000 carats were swept and gathered up by the police...
...father, sold the Bee to a grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...
...aged U. S. Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming ("The Greatest Shepherd Since Abraham"), against whom the $1,850,000 suit was brought last week. Senator Warren, of all Senators, might be considered a sound bank official. For many a year he has managed fiscal matters of great import to the U. S. as chairman of the potent Senate Committee on Appropriations...