Word: martha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday Matinee.--Martha Flautow...
Sued for divorce. Jose Baccardi, " Cuban rum king," by Senora Martha Durand Baccardi, in Manhattan. She charged nonsupport, and added that he " did nothing but drink . . . his own liquor. . . . When he was tired of that he would go to sleep...
Poland and Turkey are not to be confused. Poland wants to be educationally reorganized by Americans. Turkey does not. Moreover Turkey has excluded American teachers from its own schools, whereas Poland has engaged Miss Martha Mazurowski, principal of public school No. 13 in Buffalo, N. Y., to aid in remodeling its entire educational structure. Poland's engagement of Miss Mazurowski may be a delicate compliment to the excellence of American education. Or it may be a generous recognition of the successful administration of an American school by a Pole. But in either case Poland is to be credited with...
...standards of the crowd, is concerned not with quantity but with quality, not with the mounting curve of statistics but with the spirit working in secret places, not with the piling up of buildings but with the transmission of living ideas." On the contrary, the American college President plays Martha to the exclusion of Mary...
...light and color (his favorite tones were blue and lemon yellow), and a certain noble serenity of atmosphere that has never been surpassed. He painted chiefly genre pieces and" homely portraits of the Dutch bourgeosie, but has two known landscapes in Dutch galleries, and a Christ with Mary and Martha in the Coats collection, Glasgow. The Metropolitan has three Vermeers, including the Young Woman Opening a Casement in the Morgan collection, and the Sleeping Cook, in the Altman collection...