Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delved into the cubism and Negro sculpture which preoccupied his new friends, Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Braque. He became alcoholic and consumptive, affected voluminous trousers, a gay scarf, a wide-brimmed black hat. He lived in grubby Montparnasse with one Jeanne Hebuterne who bore him a child. He was known as the poorest man in Paris. Meanwhile he painted steadily and achieved a personal style. Most of the 400 canvases he left are portraits...
Pierre Samuel duPont, board chair-man of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, cellulose products), chairman of General Motors Corp., State Tax Commissioner of Delaware,* made known that he had bought a $250,000 pipe organ which will be brought in 14 freight cars this week to a specially constructed $750,000 building on his Kennett Square, Pa., estate where it will be played for him by Firman Swinnen, onetime Antwerp Cathedral organist...
...Wonderful Night. Best known of Johann Strauss operas is Die Fledermaus (The Bat), which has been presented to various English-understanding audiences as Night Birds, The Merry Countess and is now offered by the Brothers Shubert under a persuasive title which suggests a Shubert burlesque or a cheap cinema. Since the humor-depending on a husband's seduction by a masked beauty who turns out to be his wife-is not certainly apparent to modern audiences, other Viennese values must be emphasized. Chief among these, of course, is the music, which the Shuberts have duly honored by hiring...
...Author. This is Richard Aldington's first novel. He is known for criticism, translations and poems. His wife, Hilda Doolittle Aldington, is the Imagist poet...
...lightsome, they heard Yale's President, with Angellic jocosity, say: "One of our coaches, on the day that the Carnegie report was published [TIME, Nov. 4] told me that he would gladly exchange all Yale's purity for a good set of ends. . . .* We have long known that Yale teams were suffering from something and now this something appears to have been excessive purity. Already there is a movement afoot to add to Yale's motto, Lux et Veritas, the word Puritas. Later this year when you view the Yale team in action, I am happy...