Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opening the second series of the Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures, Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, C.B.E., F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A., Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, will deliver tonight his first lecture on the History of Italian Sculpture...
This address, the topic of which will be "The Approach to Italian Sculpture," will be given at 8 o'clock in the large Lecture Hall of the New Fogg Museum, and will be open to the public...
...small grey man, with eyes as grey as new wrought awls, backed against a handrail of the Italian liner Conte Rosso when she dropped anchor at quarantine in New York Harbor last week* and permitted reporters to tease noncommittal smiles from him. "Mr. Woods," they chirruped, "who was the person who provided $2,500,000 for the American School for Classical Studies at Athens to excavate the ancient public market place of Athens...
Last month a discontented Italian remained in Venice. His discontent arose from engine trouble which forced him out of the recent Schneider Cup races won by English Flight Lieutenant S. N. Webster at 281 miles an hour. Discontented Major Mario di Bernardi tinkered with his engine. Last week he summoned a committee of the International Aeronautic Federation; flew. When he descended watches recorded he had traveled faster than man and his machines have ever traveled. Speed: 301.185 miles per hour...
...peculiar to museums and to the carpeted anterooms of cinema theatres. Near the three prize-winning pictures-a "Still Life" by Henri Matisse, "Motherhood" by Anto Carte, Andrew Dasburg's "Poppies"-there were small, stirring ponds of faces. There were puddles of them under many other pictures: Italian Antonio Donghi's study of three enigmatic figures, called "Carnival," which received first honorable mention; "Two Figures," languid, graceful girls painted by Bernard Karfiol of Manhattan, honorable mention. Then there were the "Calla Lillies" almost sticky with pollen as they poked stiffly from a vase, which brought Max Pechstein...