Word: kent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Partner Abell, of his descendants, and of their business and journalistic heirs. Last week that story was published by four able writers, all employes of the Sun, in as comprehensive a biography as any U. S. newspaper ever received: The Sunpapers of Baltimore, by Gerald W. Johnson, Frank R. Kent, H. L. Mencken and Hamilton Owens...
Probably the most eminent present members of the Sunpapers' staff are its four biographers. Oldest of these in point of service is Political Pundit Kent, who has a roving assignment to write as he pleases for the Sun. Editorialist Mencken, who writes a weekly article for the Evening Sun, has been continuously employed on the two papers for over 30 years, is now a director of the Sun company. Present management of the Sunpapers, headed by President Paul Patterson, has sought to make the Sun and the Evening Sun separate journalistic entities, although national advertising may be inserted...
Such amateurs of the flute as Rockwell Kent and Charles Gates Dawes know how hard it is to play correctly. Great flautists like New York's Georges Barrère or Philadelphia's William Kincaid have taken years to perfect themselves. Flute technique is hard because a flautist cannot see his lips or the air coming from them, but none the less his lips must be properly shaped, his wind properly directed. A flautist does not blow through the flute, but across its mouthpiece to the opposite edge. The edge vibrates, sets the whole column...
...Despite the Congress' slightly incoherent Utopianism, works on view were of a remarkably high character, presented the highest artistic average of any group show of the past season. Artists exhibiting were far from unknown. They ranged from ultra-conservatives like Paul Manship through progressives like Leon Kroll, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, George Biddle, to complete abstractionists like Stuart Davis. A few scenes of the Spanish War were on the walls but for the most part propaganda was left to the Congress' various pamphlets...
Largest individual order received by Paris couturiers since the War came from the Duchess of Kent, who purchased 22 dresses for her summer and Coronation wardrobe. Estimated cost...