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Another lion figure of more elaborate design is worthy of earnest attention. This beast, whose body is covered with red paint and whose mane, head, tail, and paws are in a splendid, firm, yellow glaze, has not perhaps the natural grace of the first one but substitutes for it a force and feeling of austere power that the other lacks. If one allows the imagination to roam one can see here the beginning of the supremacy of realism in Babylonian and Assyrian art. This piece is not the conquest; it is but a preliminary invasion...
...black-gowned judge of the Brabant Court of Assizes sat in his Brussels courthouse last week to try one Fernando de Rosa charged with attempting to assassinate Crown Prince Umberto of Italy during H. R. H.'s visite de fiancallies to his present wife Princess Mane Jose of Belgium last year (TIME...
Author Hamlin Garland, 70, has a white mustache, a mane of white hair, a good-natured expression. He married (1899) Zulime Taft, sister of Sculptor Lorado Taft. They have two daughters. The Garlands live in Manhattan. Other books: Trail Makers of the Middle Border, A Son of the Middle Border, A Daughter of the Middle Border, Back Trailers of the Middle Border...
...President Paul von Hindenburg went to Dietramszell, Bavaria, to shoot at chamois. Attired in mackintosh and with a gemsbart (chamois mane) stuck jauntily behind his green hunting hat, he was delighted when he brought down a buck. Not so delighted was he to learn that the Bavarian cabinet of Minister President Dr. Heinrich Held, who has been in office since 1924, had resigned after having failed to effect a higher slaughter tax. The bill would have added $2.000.000 annually to Bavaria's income by imposing a tax on all cattle butchered. There seemed to be little reason to believe that...
Nest In Burlington, Vt., an English sparrow built its nest in the mane of Tommy Woolworth, horse...