Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When he was 14 he had typhoid fever and in his delirium raved about the Renaissance, his longing to become a painter. This was the first indication of his esthetic bent. His mother...
Last week in Manhattan the first one-man show of Modigliani was held. Among the 37 canvases, mostly portraits of his Paris friends, was one of his earliest heads and his last canvas, a large nude. Also shown was his last palette and a death mask taken in the hospital by his friends, the painter Kisling and the sculptor Lipshitz. It reveals a small ascetic face with sunken eyes, a very thin nose...
Pierre Samuel duPont, board chair-man of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, cellulose products), chairman of General Motors Corp., State Tax Commissioner of Delaware,* made known that he had bought a $250,000 pipe organ which will be brought in 14 freight cars this week to a specially constructed $750,000 building on his Kennett Square, Pa., estate where it will be played for him by Firman Swinnen, onetime Antwerp Cathedral organist...
...Utica, N. Y., one Harry Hewlett, garage man, sued the N. Y. Telephone Co; and Mrs. Dorcas Stockhauser, telephone operator, for $10,000. His charge: since 1923 Operator Stockhauser. daughter of a rival garage man, wife of another, diverted all calls to the Howlett garage, sent them instead to her family's garages...
...Mexico City, a man appeared on a boulevard, took his coat off and danced before approaching autos like a matador before a bull. When the motorists veered away, he shouted: "These animals have no fighting spirit...