Word: lank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lank, myopic John La Farge was born in New York in 1835, son of a French emigre from Santo Domingo who had made a fortune in real estate in Louisiana and New York. He died in Providence, R. I. 75 years later. A confirmed aristocrat and cosmopolite, he traveled extensively, read voraciously, married Margaret Mason Perry, a granddaughter of Oliver Hazard ("We-have-met-the-enemy-and -they -are -ours") Perry. He rather disliked and distrusted the U. S. scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with...
...Divine, succeeded in erecting the gigantic columns and romanesque choir, which his successor the mystically Gothic Ralph Adams is busily altering. Manhattanites remember Christopher Grant La Farge as designer of most of the buildings in the Bronx Zoo and of New York's subway kiosks. His two lank sons, both contributors to the family exhibition, are Christopher, known as "Kipper," and Oliver, known as "Ink." Kipper is an architect, likewise an able amateur actor. Ink is an ethnologist, .knows a vast deal about the Amerindians, was author of last year's Pulitzer Prize novel, Laughing...
...London, under the auspices of Mrs. Marie Sterner, able Manhattan dealer, who found the exhibition not quite suitable for her own gallery. Photographer Beaton is one of those sensitive, talented, emotional and precocious young men who seem increasingly numerous in Britain, traditional mother of the bulldog breed. Long and lank, with luxuriant curling eyelashes, he gives an impression of terrific world weariness for a youth of 25. This impression is rapidly broken down by the exultant whoops with which he greets his friends and acquaintances in theatre lobbies and other public places. Broadwayfarers were still repeating last week a typical...
John Marin was born in Rutherford, N. J. 60 years ago. His. long lank hair is still brown, makes him look like a smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving. He habitually wears high stiff collars, enjoys fishing. It is 22 years since Alfred Stieglitz, a distinguished photographer in his own right, first found John Marin in Paris making a precarious living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian...
Paderewski, nearing 70, arrived look-ing tired and thin after his recent illness. He was accompanied by lank Ernest Schelling, a neighbor of his at Morges on Lake Geneva. He wore the characteristic Paderewski dress: ill-fitting overcoat, slouch hat, black sack suit, white waistcoat, low flannel collar, high button boots. A delegation of Polish war veterans met him at the pier. Newspapers reviewed his political past; emblazoned his most casual utterances. On Oct. 21 in Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take...