Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calculation of the planet's existence was gloriously praiseworthy for human mentality. But it was not unique. Neptune was discovered Sept. 23, 1846, in precisely the same manner? by figuring from the orbital variation of Uranus. Wholly independent of each other John Couch Adams, young Englishman, and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, young Frenchman, did the mathematical work...
Neptune, god of the sea, was chosen after Dominique Francois Arago (1786-1853), a leading French astronomer of his time had tried to get it called Leverrier, after Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, who calculated its existence...
...England they looked to Metaphysician Peter Ouspensky (Tertium Organum] until he quarreled with Gurdjieff. Manhattan Gurdjieffites include: Architect Hugh Ferriss, Editor Herbert Croly (New Republic), Socialite Mrs. Meredith Hare, Critic Gorham B. Munson, Musician Jeffrey Mark, Farmer Schuyler Jackson (TIME, Dec. 23), Authors Muriel Draper, Isa Glenn, Bayard Schindel, Jean Toomer...
...face, fond of beer, is 50, a bachelor. A native of Baltimore, he still lives there, edits The American Mercury when he comes (at least once a month) to Manhattan. He worked as reporter on various Baltimore newspapers, became editor of The Smart Set (1914-23) with Critic George Jean Nathan; of The American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever...
...Theatre perform a play of Scribe's in which Queen Anne of England, the Duchess of Marlborough and a simple heroine named Abigail Churchill vie with each other for the favors of a Captain of the Guards. The entanglements are also political. Attired in picturesque costumes designed by Jean Bilibine, painted by Jacob Anchutin and executed by P. & A. Badulin, the members of this earnest little theatre give an incredibly bad account of themselves...