Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rochester were the Rochester Dental Dispensary, Rochester Chamber of Commerce Building, Eastman School of Music, Eastman Theatre (now closed), Rochester Civic Orchestra. To Rome, London, Paris, Stockholm and Brussels he gave million-dollar dental & throat clinics. His private interests included art, music, big game hunting (in Africa, with the Martin Johnsons), calendar reform. He whittled, baked cakes & pies, collected orchids and firearms, was awakened every morning by pipe organ. He never married...
Little phased by the usual complication of such a tale, however, the Barrymores seem equally at home in the huge hallways, the three-story Gothic arches, and the long expanses of stairways of the Gourney-Martin country house. The ease with which John, clad in a smoking jacket, pipe in mouth, opens massive oaken doorways and closes them noiselessly, tiptoes softly along the great corridors, and the grace and agility with which he slides down the huge, smooth stone bannisters are a pleasure to watch. One can almost smell the fragrance of his pipe as he leans over the rail...
Names of seven Juniors who have been regularly nominated for the three elective offices of the Phillips Brooks House Association were announced yesterday by G. K. Martin '32, president of the Association...
...Such nominations must be delivered to E. S. Amazeen '31, graduate secretary, at Phillips Brooks House not later than Friday. Shortly thereafter ballots will be sent to every member of the Association. Ballots must be returned by April 2, when the results of the elections will be made known. Martin, N. N. Cochrane '32, vice-president; and F. F. Wilder '32, are the retiring officers. Usually about 400 votes are cast...
...hundredth anniversary of the artist's death and exhibitions of his works at Augsburg and Munich have increased the general interest in him and the appreciation of his significance for German art. Burgkmair was born in 1473, the son of an artist; he studied at Colmar in Alsace, under Martin Schongauer, one of the greatest painters and engravers of the dying Gothic age; and he made several journeys to Italy. In him, even earlier than in Duerer, the realization of the new spirit of the Renaissance makes its appearance; but the transition from late-Gothic ornamentation and style...