Word: janet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose name was still a byword for the good old rock-bound kind of success? And Bradford and Penelope March were advance for their day ? they let their children call them by their first names and believed in their being healthy and, as far as possible, free. But Janet, their daughter, was an absolutely modern model with the latest streamline attachments, self-starter...
Roger had had his own troubles. In boyhood, Plainsburg ? a hot, dead, little country town. Later, Herald College where he had had a prize scholarship, and which he found as vapid as Janet, on the whole, found her college. Adventures with girls, an attempt at treading the primrose path (abandoned when he discovered those well advertised flowers a little too stale for enjoyment), a search for the beauty and truth of life in odd exploits that led, apparently, nowhere; Sally the beautiful, and their engagement, broken, mended, broken; Sally, the unlucky, crushed pitilessly by circumstance she was not steely...
...herself a sculptor of first rank, preferred Edward McCartan's bronze Fountain. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, the good Boston doctor-philosopher, decided on The Grand Pitch, by George C. Hallowell. Other paintings and sculptures in the first 30 were by such standard artists as Daniel Chester French, Frederick Frieseke, Janet Scudder, Harry Watrous, Leopold Seyffert, Chauncey Ryder, R. Tait McKenzie, Charles Hawthorne, Frank Benson, Eugene Savage, Cecilia Beaux, Frederick Waugh, Lillian Genth, Charles H. Davis, Ben Foster, Ernest Ipsen, Charles Woodbury...
Floyd Dell, whose Moon-Calf and The Briary Bush were ranked high by many critics among contemporary realistic novels, has finished a new story. It will be called Janet March and will be published in the autumn. Meanwhile, at Croton-on-Hudson he is attempting to play tennis and to educate his young son Anthony Dell, who, if he has not already commenced to talk, will do so very soon...
...seen protesting against the miracle of turning water into wine, with the illuminating title underneath: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And a neighboring exhibit represents a miracle in itself. For here are heads on John the Baptist and of Christ, sawed up from Mrs. Janet Singh's dining-room floor. There they were imprinted by the power emanating from that lady's eyes, while she fixed her mind on suitable scripture passages...