Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Museum, Manhat tan, is to be the recipient. The Rembrandts include the land scape, The Mill (said to have cost $500,000), Portrait of Saskia; Study of an Old Man; Portrait of Himself; The Philosopher; Head of an Aged Woman; The Apostle Paul; The Circumcision; Head of St. Matthew; Portrait of a Man with a Letter; Descent from the Crass (also reported to have cost $500,000). Two portraits in his collection (A Gentleman With High Hat and Gloves in Right Hand; and A Lady with Ostrich Feather Fan in Right Hand) are the subject of the suit instituted...
...language-in all dialects. His adventures are varied -one of the most entertaining being his connivance in the escape of Sophie, the trained seal. The good doctor's intimates are all with him-Jip, the dog; Dab-Dab, the duck; Too-Too, the owl; Gub-Gub, the pig; Matthew Mugg, the Cat's meatman. The book is excellent propaganda for the prevention of cruelty to animals...
...systems of education are mere aids, and not means. In every case education must be self-imposed. If the English system is to be defended by citing Matthew Arnold, the Harvard system need not hang its head when it points to Emerson, William James, and Roosevelt...
...Author. Matthew Phipps Shiel was born of Irish parents in the West Indies in 1865. He studied medicine and mathematics; chemical experiments and mathematics are still his chief amusements. He appears to know a little about almost everything. His first venture as an author was the publication of a paper, written out by hand, at the age of 13. His particular pride is his body. He boasts that he, "over 40 years old, can run nine miles with sprightliness." He sees a fundamental identity between genius and physical health. Among his novels-some 20 in number-are Prince Zaleski, Shapes...
...Bouwerie Maidens in "gowns of a flimsy character," dancing, prancing lightly in the nave of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, glorifying God and the American girl, with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John looking on. They are gone. The famed "eurythmic ritual," so notable a feature of the afternoon services in the Manhattan church last year, will be dispensed with this season, announced the Rector, Dr. William Norman Guthrie. His reasons for discontinuing the dances were described by Dr. Guthrie as "rather physical than spiritual." The difficulties of their preparation, together with the necessity for cutting down the Church...