Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert, Duke of York prepared months ago this Christmas Card apropos the Sovereign. At a moment when everyone is coupling King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson, this couples King Edward III and Lady Salisbury. She has dropped her garter, courtiers are tittering, and the chivalrous King is about to master the situation by putting on the thing himself and making the Order of the Garter the most exalted form of British knighthood...
...years ago this woman, a University of Kansas Master of Arts (1914), a Bryn Mawr Ph. D. (1917), onetime professor at the University of Minnesota, stocked her laboratory with a 25-lb. can of rice, can upon can of corn syrup and started a series of week-long dietary experiments. For four days she eats only two cups of boiled rice and corn syrup in small doses. This eliminates sulfur compounds from her system to such an extent that none can be detected in her blood or what she modestly euphemizes as "other fluids." On the fifth day she takes...
...panel the size of a sheet of typewriter paper and painted in color as brilliant as a Flemish primitive. It now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art and was a headliner in last week's exhibition. Other interesting Dalis exhibited included a drawing, fine as an Italian master's, of a nude woman with a body made of half-open bureau drawers, and a painting of a group of African natives squatting before a dome-shaped...
...Medical School, Andrew G. Webster II, of Newton Centre, has been awarded the major Harrison Briggs Webster Scholarship, while Aouney W. Dejany, Jerusalem, Palestine, has been awarded the Philip Master Lydig Scholarship, in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...which a skillful restorer can similate the surface quality of an old master is seen in the painting of the "Pieta" by Carlo Crivelli, a 15th century Italian artist. The whole central portion of this picture was destroyed, and early in the 20th century restoration was undertaken by an able Italian artist, who entirely repainted the center portion, following other original works by Crivelli, and imitating the master's materials and technique very closely. Even with the X-ray it is hard to tell where Crivelli's work leaves off and the modern artist's begins, but by careful observation...