Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embarking on a course of training in the stimulating atmosphere of the School is indeed doubly privileged. For no one can survey modern American life without appreciating the all-important role which business plays there...
Died. Dr. Hinko Hinkovitch. of Bel- grade, a founder of modern Jugoslavia, wartime propagandist with Pianist Ignaz Jan Paderewski against the Austro-Hungarian monarchy; at Zagreb...
...tombs are laid away examples of the work of the great painters and sculp- tors of other times. There are Rubenses, Rembrandts,* Rodins, Titians, Tintorettos, Tiepolos, scores of time-proven mediocrities, one Botticelli. Progressive artists throughout the East have long given up hope for modernity in the Metropolitan. Few of them ever visit its vaults. Scathingly they view it only as a trysting place for shopgirls and their beaux, a shelter for nurse-girls and babies on rainy days, a "point of interest" for out-of-towners. It is the only official museum of art in New York City. Last...
Capt. John W. Dillin. of Media, Pa., scorning modern small arms, shot his matches with a flintlock rifle made in 1763, notched for dead Indians...
...above liberty-lovers and many another Author Smith writes with full sympathy, a modern criminological attitude and a sense of what thrills. Presumably, few convicts will be allowed to read the book...