Word: jo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hung together in a harmonious whole to carry out "the idea of international sympathy." There were studies of a cow, a cat, a goose, and a donkey by Jeanne Poupelet; compositions by such Frenchmen as Derain, Andre, Rouault, Aristide Maillol; by Augustus John and Jacob Epstein; by George Luks, Jo Davidson, Childe Hassam, Gertrude Whitney and Robert W. Chanler. The metropolitan critics, loyal patriots all, generously discussed the merits of the U. S. paintings: "Jazz," an experiment in abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward Hopper of a lonely blue house with...
...highwaymen, a bar maid, and a bar, old style. To be sure the story begins with one Judd, a coal barge owner, but nothing comes of that since we hear nothing of coal barges and little of Judd. After we get into the story we find our highwaymen. Gentleman Jo has shot the stage coach guard in the belly. It was certainly in the belly because there are five references to Gentleman Jo's custom of shooting only at the belly. Gentleman Jo, is not the Jeffrey Farnol or the Alfred Noyes sort of highwayman, as the bar maid...
John Anderson, my jo, John...
...back to their homes in Norway and those who return again to their homes in North Dakota, always homesick for homes across the sea wherever they may be and nearly always driven back to the flat prairie, the land of opportunity and fertility. "Now I see," says Jo Berg, the dissatisfied old schoolmaster, "why it required mountain folk and sailors to conquer the prairie! Their knapsacks and their hearts were full of the wild scenery of the old country, and they lived on it summers and winters alike! The mountains and the sea rescued the plain...
Thus wrote Walt Whitman and thus Sculptor Jo Davidson has modeled him, stepping with a fine stride, his long greatcoat billowing out in his van like a useless, gallant mainsail. The design was chosen last week as the best of those submitted for the Walt Whitman Memorial which is to be erected in Manhattan by the Authors' Club. The design will soon be shown at a Whitman exhibition in the New York Public Library...