Word: kenyon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Modern artists flayed as Ananiases: John W. Alexander, Alma-Tadema, Bakst, Blashfield, Bonnat, Allan Clark, Kenyon Cox, Daniel Chester French, Gerome, Laszlo, Manship, Mestrovic, Sargent, Lorado Taft, Zuloaga...
...comes to New York from South Bend, Ind., to be best man for a friend who is marrying a woman they wouldn't like in South Bend. While the camera turns its solemn eye and ear on the declamations and gestures of Richard Bennett and Doris Kenyon, the spectators, distracted by the jerky sequences, annoyed by the enormous metallic voices issuing from the vitaphone, are left to wonder what sounds even a perfected mechanism could produce which would equal the beautiful silence of oldfashioned cinemas...
...hornswoggle him when he plays the stock market. But, finally, by virile tactics, he gets even with them and marches out of their office with a big black bag containing $3,000,000. Then dat ole debbil Burning Daylight says to his sweetheart (Mrs. Milton Sills, the onetime Doris Kenyon): "Let's go back to Alaska." And, three guesses and no fair peeking, who wrote the original story...
...Clarksburg, West Va., another young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished, as the years went by, that circumstances had permitted him to remain in Clarksburg, the way John William Davis...
Then the unexpected happened. News came out that some of the Lowden managers had been overgenerous and somewhat undiscriminating in their use of money. The Kenyon committee of the Senate brought out the fact that more than $400,000 had been raised by the Lowden managers and that the sum of $32,202, in particular, had been injudiciously spent in Missouri for the apparent purpose of influencing delegates...