Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty-eight years ago a baby was born blind in Montgomery, Ala. She grew up, married a man named Wagoner, bore a son whom she could touch but never see. Lately, ill, she was taken to the charity hospital at Colfax, La. The doctors told her they thought they might, even now, operate and make...
...years ago Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping down from...
...financier (breweries, banks, railroads) ; of heart disease; in London. In 1919, with Andrew Bonar Law, he swung Conservative support to the Coalition party which elected Prime Minister Lloyd George. In 1922 he swung the Conservatives the other way, caused the Prime Minister's downfall. He was called "the man who pulls the strings which make the Ministers dance...
There is a fairest and most illuminating time to look at a great man dead. That time for Karl Marx, holy father of Socialism of all tints, from palest parlor pink to Russianest Soviet red, is his poverty-stricken, voluminously literary period in England (1849 to his death...
...trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric...