Word: marius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be arranged by the National Academy of Design. In the opinion of Edwin M. Blashfield, President of the Academy, this marks the "coming of age of American art." A painting by "El Greco," 15th century Spanish painter, brought the largest price, $9,000, at the auction of the Marius de Zayas collection in New York; not a large price, considering what is often paid for contemporary work...
...Camelots du Roi, literally, the King's hawkers-is an organization within an organization. It was founded by three prominent men in the ranks of the Royalist Party, Maxime del Sarte, Marius Plateau (recently murdered in the office of the Action Française), and Lucien Lacour. In turn it is sponsored by the French Royalist newspaper, L'Action Française, of which Léon Daudet is the head. Writing of them Daudet says: "Camelots du Roi was the beginning of a vast movement which was soon to sweep along the majority of French youth...
...aise, son of the famous novelist, Alphonse Daudet, and himself no mean writer, is the energy of the Royalist movement. Charles Maurras, also an editor of the paper, distinguished by the excellence of his polemics, may be termed the moral and theoretical leader of the party. The late Marius Plateau, who was killed by a female assassin, was considered the greatest organizer of the three. It was on account of his death that the Camelots raided the offices of the radical newspapers, L'Oeuvre and the Ere Nouvelle...
...Marius Nygaard Smith-Peterson, S.B., M.D. (Orthopedic Surgery...