Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor Vincent" Van Gogh, who died an apparent failure in 1890, and whose paintings remained obscure for more than 30 years, is now sweeping away the barriers of New England conservatism with an exhibition of his modernistic work lent by the Kroeller-Mueller Foundation of Holland to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
...Titian was Venus and the Lute Player. Lord Duveen, after buying it from the third Earl of Leicester in 1932, lent it to Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition and to Venice's great Titian exhibition where it hung with the famed Venus of Urbino (TIME...
...thanks boys, I've sworn off for Lent" said Governor Curley as the cigars were passed around yesterday noon up on Beacon Hill "You-know, sworn off to make up some of my sins", he explained...
...tombstone trade, last week's convention talked little about business, a lot about art. Dealers and salesmen were driven to cemeteries, taken on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown tombstone art. Sculptors Robert Aitken, Harriet Frishmuth, Charles Keck, Augustus Lukeman and the Piccirilli Brothers lent pieces to the exhibition. And at the annual banquet, the chief address was de- livered by Bainbridge Colby. "I want to use this occasion," declared Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State, "to make an earnest plea for the revival of the epitaph. . . . The power of words, suitable and just...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...