Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the late Willard L. Metcalf, famed artist (TIME, Mar. 23), in his will: "I instruct my executors to destroy any paintings which, in their judgment, they may deem for the best interests of my estate to have destroyed." Accordingly his executors, Architect Charles A. Platt, Illustrator Wallace Morgan, Art Dealer Albert Milch, last week burned 17 pictures which they regarded as below his best standard, set aside 12 others for future destruction. No adolescent attempts, experiments, unfinished work will mar the reputation of Artist Metcalf, as they do the fame of so many artists, musicians, writers...
...will instruct these students in the principles of anthropology, in which he is one of the greatest students. The experience would be invaluable to anyone interested in pursuing the study. Purely as an adventure it will be one of the most interesting a man could enjoy. The trip will require at least six months and the cost will be reasonable...
...Professor Baker has never suffered. "Queen Victoria" was not a masterpiece, but that may have been the fault of his collaborator. A former New York newspaper reviewer, he knows the caprices of the managers, their loves and hatreds, their strengths and frailties, and so he should be able to instruct the authors when to be submissive, when to grapple. Producers have welcomed him to their entertainments, and they have put him out of them. Asked by a pupil where to take a play treating of the rougher seximpulses, Mr. Eaton is equipped to say, "Anywhere but to John Golden...
...ripening experience were essential. When Hewitt Morgan became state and almost national champion a while ago, the elders talked of freaks and all that. But last year, the Harvard youngsters won the class A championship. They will win it again this season. The professional coach who used to instruct the Harvard Club players found more plastic material in Cambridge: youth is always easier to mold than ago. His pupils are so much better than their competitors, have developed a style of play so much superior in strokes, tactics and variety to yesterday's that there is mock serious talk...
...interests of American citizens there. I think they had ample justification for going there and did go in good faith, believing that it belonged to the United States. I do not think that the treaty protects their rights." If the treaty should be rejected and the Senate should instruct the President to take steps to raise the U. S. flag over the Isle of Pines, an acute situation would result. Cuba's Latin emotions would flare up. She would cry: "Outrage!" Our relations with her would be strained. The effect of such action would spread throughout Latin America, where...