Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over. It ended in bewildering darkness, and, said General Bliss, happiness at its ending was subdued. The old States, the old ways of life, the old political and social organizations of Europe were shattered; 9,000,000 men had been killed in battle or had died of their wounds; 22,000,000 had been wounded; an unknown number of civilians died as a result of the War. "Not until our children's time can the former joy of life come into the world," Bliss remarked. "And it can come then only if our culminating work makes it impossible...
Penmen. Great progenitor of the pen-and-ink school was the virtuoso, Charles Dana Gibson, whose crisp and incredibly thoroughbred characters lived so vividly in the old Life that in 1920 Gibson was able to buy the magazine for $1,000,000. President of the Society of Illustrators from 1904-05 and from 1909-20, Gibson was honored at last week's exhibition by a retrospective room full of Gibson Girls. Now 71 and long retired, high-collared, big-chinned "Dana" Gibson paints all day in a 59th Street studio but not a soul is permitted...
...contain an open-shop clause. The Guild is forbidden by its constitution to accept the open-shop principle, although in contracts with other publishers it has frequently agreed to open-shop conditions by omitting any mention of a "Guild shop" (a modified closed shop). By bringing the home life of the Times into the open the Guild hopes to make it easier for Timesmen to join up, eventually to get a contract...
...This beautiful notion is implanted in him by an uplifted, though agreeably carnal, society woman, and involves him in a mess of ideas about immortality and Loyalist Spain. It takes all the skill of the playwright's clever, patient wife (Katharine Cornell) to give his plays, and her life, a happy ending...
Three immigrants, now U. S. citizens, were awarded annual scrolls of the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare for "significant contributions to American life": Russian-born David Sarnoff, 48, President of R. C. A.; Scotland-born William Allan Neilson, 70, President of Smith College; Moravian-born Albin Polasek, 60, famed Chicago sculptor...