Word: madonna
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contemporary light essays made by David McCord '21, which is released today, will also be reviewed in tomorrow's Bookshelf. Other books on the list include "It's a Great War", by Mary Lee, "In Princeton Town", by Day Edgar; "Mud and Glory", by James M. Melville, "The Patchwork Madonna", by Harold Weston, "River House", by Stark Young, and "Invitation to Danger", by Alfred Stanford...
Maurice Tessier, French novelist (The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), who has written the "best seller" in France for five successive years, and whose pen name is Maurice Dekobra, had his name changed to Maurice Tessier Dekobra...
...Madonna of Avenue A (Warner). A Bootlegger who sings nicely in the moonlight, accompanying himself on the guitar, meets a lonely girl from a private school, teaches her how to drink. Ousted from school, the girl visits Manhattan to find the Park Avenue home her mother has spoken of so often. It is a dull, wandering fiction, hardly made bearable by the good looks of Dolores (Mrs. John Barrymore) Costello. Most expected shot: the moment when the girl and her mother meet in a bar where the mother, who had lied about her high estate, has been swigging with sailors...
...vehement kind that he must not be surprised if any of the brethren wish to call attention to its implications." Continued Bishop Furse: ". . . He is hurting the feelings ... of thousands of people throughout the world with language such as his reference to the statue of the Madonna as a 'female and child.' " Answered Bishop Barnes: "I stand as a prominent member of what is known as the Modernist Movement. That movement seeks to be loyal to the Church but it also seeks to be loyal to TRUTH." Said still another Bishop: "So do we all." Thereupon the Bishops...
...each other for ten minutes of increasing bewilderment, the auction proved a fiasco. True, the Crucifixion was sold for $375,000, breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...