Word: michell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents that Herr Streck was in jail, but why they would not tell, and his jailing was not officially confirmed. In vain the German Embassy demanded that Herr Streck be produced, and the U. S. Embassy was able to hold its wedding only when another Soviet-German pastor, Herr Michel, whose Lutheran church is in Leningrad, rushed 500 miles to Moscow where genial U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson gave the bride away. Intention to found a U. S. church in the Red Capital was definitely abandoned last year after Dr. Walter William Van Kirk...
...family always spelled the name De Gas. His half-Italian father was a moderately rich banker who went to Paris about the year 1800 to open a branch of the family's Neapolitan banking house. His mother (Adele Musson) was born in the U. S.; her brother Michel ran a cotton brokerage business in New Orleans. Edgar Degas started as a well-intentioned student. Ingres was his life-long ideal, but lessons from a pupil of a pupil of Ingres was as close as he could come...
...first paintings, large allegorical exercises in the manner of Delacroix, won him early recognition. In 1873, Painter Degas went to New Orleans to visit his uncle Michel and his two younger brothers, René and Achille, who were working there in the cotton house. Brother Edgar painted an excellent view of his relatives during office hours, which hung last week in Philadelphia's exhibition. Uncle Michel in his silk hat and frock coat sits in the foreground peering at a sample of cotton. Behind him brother René is sprawled in chair reading a newspaper, while customers finger samples...
...Education of Henry Adams" was published several years after the author's death and attained a tremendous popularity which it will doubtless hold so long as literature lasts. It has been issued in a number of different inexpensive formars. "Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres" by the nature of its subject is a more technical and a more difficult book to read. It is an experience in aesthetics and the philosophy of aesthetics that is unrivalled by anything in any tongue; the "Stones of Venice" is uninteresting beside it, and it excels the ordinary artistic appreciation as Chartres itself excels Memorial...
...first time since the legend prevailed, a French historian has made reply to the long-existing claim in Eastern North Carolina that Marshal Michel Ney lies buried there, that he escaped execution in Paris on Dec. 7, 1817, was smuggled to Charleston, S. C. and died many years later after serving the families of Southern planters as a teacher...