Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Akin to this experiment was the decapitation of a dog by two other Moscow men. S. S. Brukhanenko and Sergei Chechulin. To the head arteries they connected a pump which forced oxygenated blood to the amputated head, which, like John the Baptist's rested on a plate. The head's eyes moved. They closed when a strong light was flashed at them. The ears wiggled. The tongue ejected a piece of cotton soaked with acid, and swallowed a piece of cheese. For three and a half hours these natural reactions continued. By that time the venous blood became too heavy...
...fifty million dollar increase over 1927.* But, as everyone could foretell, he was not reelected to the Board, because, after the most famed proxy fight in recent business history, he controlled only 2,954,986 shares whereas Lawyer W. W. Aldrich, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., controlled...
...such silliness did not submerge the occasional excellence of the exhibition. Patterning after the Paris Salon des Independants in its opposition to tight orthodoxies, the Society of Independent Artists provides a more exciting display than conservative bodies like the National Academy. Such reputable painters as John Taylor Arms, Pop Hart, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, Walter Pach. John Sloan (president of the Society) and Claggett Wilson were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon...
...sights to see. There was drabness on one hand, pomp on the other. Mr. Soglow grew with the former, protected by a wise detachment. Determined to study painting, he attended the Art Students' League of New York, where fundamentals are taught proficiently and inexpensively. There John Sloan was his teacher...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: John D. Rockefeller Jr., sojourning last week in Jerusalem, said: "My father is like Egypt-he has always good weather. At 89 he is still stronger than I am."* Alfred P. Friedrich von Tirpitz, erstwhile famed and defamed Lord High Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, now living in retirement at Feldafing on the shores of Starnberger Lake in Bavaria, near Munich, said: "Oh, well, perhaps I've outlived the times...