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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among other bequests were: The famous Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire and Bodiam Castle in Sussex?to the British nation; his collection of Oriental treasures?to the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington (London) ; portrait of General Lawrence by Sir Joshua Reynolds?to the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta; his famous Napoleonic library, containing hundreds of books?to Oxford University, or, if refused, to the British Museum; his confidential papers relating to his resignation of the Viceroyalty in India (over a feud with the then General Sir Herbert Horatio Kitchener)?to the British Museum, with injunction "to exercise sound discretion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curzon's Will | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...Chief Mogul that can tell us what the Bible means ? . . . Nothing was ever heard of all that [Christian divisions] until the Fundamentalists got into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account for, that is the hatred and the venom and feeling of people with very strong religious convictions. . . . Joshua made the sun stand still. The Fundamentalists will make the ages roll back. . . . This is as brazen and bold an attempt to destroy liberty as was ever seen in the Middle Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...regular Crimson lineup took the field, consisting of Captain R. A. Pinkerton '27, Alexander Shaw '28, and W. H. White '28. The strong Dedham outfit was composed of Mr. Dudley Clark Joshua Bacon, Peter Bowditch Varies for Clark, and P. L. Saltonstall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poloists Capture Copley Cup | 6/5/1925 | See Source »

Most famed of all this group that dreamed so long in the Northamptonshire house is Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire. She stands against a marble balustrade, a flight of steps at her feet leading to a formal park. Her dress is cream colored, her coif, built up like a Chestertonian paragraph, is starred with pearls, garnished with plumes of red and grey; from her right arm depends a gauzy scarf. Walpole wrote of her: "She effaces all without being a beauty, but her youthful figure, lively modesty and modest familiarity make her a prodigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bought | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds and a hundred others whose names have made history. Students of history will find the Diary a mine of information; the ordinary reader cannot fail to be engrossed by the absorbing account of life as it was during the late Georgian period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Books | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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