Word: lanterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern art critics have ever heard of Joseph Boggs Beale, and the Professor, busy making colored lantern slides, illustrating Bible tracts, mat calendars, children's books, probably never dreamed that they would. But among his best friends were men of whom critics have learned a great deal-Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase, Albert Rosenthal. Beale was a member of the old Philadelphia Artists' League and shared Artist Eakins' passion for rowing. At the Professor's death in 1926 he was the oldest living member of the Undine Barge Club. A hard worker, particularly in his later...
Certain are Zita and her advisers that Prince von Starhemberg as Regent would be another detestable throne-squatter like the one in Budapest who will not get up. There lantern-jawed, leather-necked old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya has reigned 15 years as Regent-presumably for Otto who is indisputably the rightful Habsburg heir to Hungary's crown as well as Austria's. Admiral Horthy, who had sworn fealty upon the Holy Bible to Otto's late Father Kaiser Karl, was called upon by that deposed monarch in his last years and commanded in the name...
...lanky, lantern-jawed Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, then famed only as a basketball player, proved at the Olympic Games that she was the world's best woman track athlete. In 1934, she learned baseball well enough to pitch in exhibition games for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Athletics. She took up golf, became good enough by last spring to win the Texas Women's championship, to have the U. S. Golf Association declare her no amateur. Said she at the time: "I have decided to become a 'business woman' golfer, following the example of such outstanding golf stars as Joyce Wethered...
...preserved orange blossoms that her mother had worn at her own wedding 30 years ago. Her bouquet was a small bunch of lilies of the valley. Sober Crown Prince Frederick wore the blue-black uniform of a Danish naval officer with a blue sash. To the chancel rail came lantern-jawed Archbishop Erling Eidem, and after him the Princess repeated...
...Nashville, Tenn., Lecturer Ralph Pearson inadvertently included in a lantern slide lecture of the world's artistic monstrosities a slide of Nashville's own replica of the Parthenon. The audience, socialite young women of the Ward-Belmont School, stanchly applauded...