Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. Michael John Cudahy, 23, Chicago meat scion (poisoned by liquor three weeks ago, TIME, Aug. 11); by Mrs. Muriel Evans Cudahy. Charge: cruelty...
...charge of the New York Subtreasury, author of Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on Liberty Loan publicity campaigns; in Le Touquet, France. Date: Aug. 29. Age: 52. Cele- bration: a dinner party in Algy's Bar at which Edward of Wales danced first with Mrs. Vogel. Another guest: Author Michael Arlen (ne Dikran Kouyoumdjian...
Said Count Michael Karolyi, onetime president of Hungary: "The only nation economically sound in Europe today is France, and so France does not want war. But those nations which are not sound, and Germany is in the forefront . . . they will seek...
...content with a rapid succession of single biographical stunts, Author Ludwig here manages three somersaults in one leap, and lands, rather blown, upon his feet. Into one volume he has squeezed the life and works of Michael Angelo, Rembrandt and Beethoven, enough to occupy an author 20 years. The temerity of the performance may be pardoned, however, for the deftness of its execution. It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks. Except for the overripe interpretive verbiage, the volume can be read...
...Michael Angelo Buonarotti's career was one of incredible energy. Surrounded by the treachery and jealousies of the Renaissance, he preserved his life and his artistic integrity for nearly 90 years. While yet in his 20's he had done the Pieta of St. Peter's, the David of Florence, had become a national figure and a centre of dissension. When he was a boy, Lorenzo de' Medici was his patron, and his intermittent allegiance to that family was finally commemorated in the dreamy Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo. Six Popes employed him. An ever-unfinished undertaking for a tomb...