Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago the Eakins pictures she had left went on display in adjacent galleries. The first day's sale alone came to more than the $15,000 Eakins made from painting in his 72 years. Eakins' portraits were too explicit to please his indignant sitters, while his interest in the human figure led him, to paint nudes too explicit for his time. When he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts "the female models wore masks, thus hiding their identity and their shame from the world." When he taught there, he was dismissed for asking...
...said that if Kaufman isn't a millionaire, he'll do until one comes along; but Kaufman may not be altogether fooling when he insists that constant work is something of a financial necessity. A generous man, he has never worshipped at the shrine of Compound Interest. "All I know," he once said, "is that I have earned a great deal of money and I haven't got any of it. If I don't get a hit each year I am in a damned...
...work by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Oscar Serlin). No easy job was it to transfer to the stage the late Clarence Day's saga of his own family during Manhattan's horsecar era. Day's own chronicle has no plot, no love interest, no mighty triumphs, no major catastrophes-only crusty, rambunctious Father, who lost almost every set-to; helpless, fluttering Mother, who won; and four redheaded boys. But Playwrights Lindsay & Grouse have turned the whole thing into a spirited, likable stage comedy. They have taken the sting out of Father...
Paul W. Cherington '40 and James D. Malcomson, Jr., '40, representing Harvard, maintained that government ownership would obviate the insecure financial condition of the railroads by reducing the high interest rates on fixed charges, bringing about a more equitable distribution of facilities...
...incredible; it can leave only the impression that they are seeking for a rationalization to justify an attempt to break up a sincere and serious meeting. Surely democracy and freedom of speech do not imply that when a group of people wish to gather together because of a common interest, they must invite all those whom they feel opposed to that interest to join with them and defeat their ends. Last night's meeting was called specifically for those who wished to protest against the University's discriminatory action. Those who did not feel like participating in this protest need...