Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...
...unnatural inflection that, 1,500 years later, Cesare Cardinal Borgia inclined to?incest with his sisters. His fancies led him to roast people alive, feed others to wild beasts. He loved to mutilate children, women, men. At executions he made victims' parents attend and after the slaughter dine with him, to enjoy their obsequious gagging...
...Harvard, where he went in 1906 from his chaste Brookline home, Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little showed eager interest in science, in genetics, in the study of cancer. There in 1912, he took an M. S., two years later passed examinations for the doctorate of Science...
...science, keen, enthusiastic, President Little went into Maine like a lion and came out three years later still more leonine. Flaying Maine for being miserly towards education he left for Michigan to try "on a very large scale the educational policies which the state of Maine has not yet been willing to adopt" (TIME, July 13, 1925). Michigan, he thought, was willing. Last week he had to admit that it was unwilling...
...wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman Catholicism -even to orgiastic massacres of Judas and Pontius Pilate in effigy. Author Seabrook records these matters with a humble sympathy rather than the traditional amused...