Word: john
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This Spanish gentleman, born in 1478, was educated at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella. In his thirtieth year, he became page to their son, the Infante Don John; he was present at the siege of Granada; and while there, he saw Columbus before his trip to America...
Forty-one drawings by John Singer Sargent, largely studies in preliminary work for decoration, have been given to the Fogg Museum of Art, it was announced yesterday. The sketches were given in memory of Sargent by his sisters, Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormend, through Thomas...
Edward Murray East, professor of Genetics, and John Donald Black, professor of Economics are two of the three American members of a commission recently appointed by the International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems, it was learned yesterday...
...Benet in his 'John Brown's Body' set for himself a major task, accomplished it, and found recognition. His technical skill, his enthusiasm for his material, and his narrative power, are combined in a poem which has had phenomenal and merited success. Mr. Robinson's 'Tristran' and Mr. Benet's 'John Brown's Body' have brought to good poetry unprecedented popular acclaim in this country--a fact which should be significant in our literary history...
...evening the Vagabond will try a sleight of hand trick to produce a Union card and then proceed to the Union Living Room where the author of "John Brown's Body", Stephen Vincent Benet, will talk on some aspects of modern writing...