Word: milo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...
...production has more than its fair share of novelties, chief of which is a deceptive lighting effect which changes girls in varicolored bathingsuits into marble statues in a wink. It also, by a painless amputation, obligingly transforms a damsel into the armless Venus de Milo...
Austin Scholarships,--A. P. Black of Gainesville, Fla.; C. W. Chenoweth of Moscow, Idaho; J. M. Cline of Schenectady, N. Y.; A. Constans of Northampton; E. D. Fagan of Los Angeles, Calif.; A. R. Knipp 2G, of Baltimore, Md.; C. D. MacIlroy of Milo, Mo.; F. O. Nolie of State College, Pa.; L. H. White of Williamsburg...
...Department of Agriculture set out to become lexicographer and authority in its own field. It issued a list of some 20 official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...
...wear my hat backward; that is my privilege. What I object to is that future American artists should have put before them false representations of our art. The museum is sacred." As for the man who committed the supposed frauds: " That man would put arms on the Venus de Milo or. a head on the Samothrace Statue of Victory...