Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME may be said to have "flunked" in nearly every famed language, ancient or modern. Also, it has, on occasion, used nearly every famed language with great eclat. Therefore, far from omitting for eign words, TIME will persist toward perfection...
...vitalizer of many a new "movement." She, more than any other, was responsible for the U. S. vogue of Leon Bakst (1866-1925), brilliant Russian artist and stage designer. She brought him to her Baltimore home, there set him to work designing a private theatre, decorating it in the modern Russian style. Bakst decorations spread to include other features of her home, some of her costumes. To her theatre at "Evergreen" she invited special guests, sang to them in a voice not professionally successful. Later, remaining childless, she turned to art as an outlet for self-expression...
Thus last week did Jesse Harding Pomeroy, long ago killer of little children, get his first view of a modern world. He was being transferred to the State Farm at Bridgewater. Fifty-three continuous years in jail, 41 of them in solitary confinement, Convict Pomeroy has served a longer life term than any other living U. S. prisoner...
...bigot and injected the religious issue in the last campaign, the unstinted faith and support of my many Catholic friends is the best reply. . . . The man most responsible for securing my appointment is Frank Doherty, of Los Angeles, a Catholic. When the cartoons were picturing me as a modern witchburner ... I called Frank (on the long distance telephone) and said 'surely you and Sarah do not believe these things of me?' With the friendly reassurance in his warm Irish voice, all my 'front' collapsed. I laughed as I paid the bill for my record long distance...
...Shrewd observers soon suspected an excellent motive behind the Archbishop's words. They recalled that Liverpool is already the site of a great Anglican cathedral, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, under construction since 1903. Modern in adaptation, it is however definitely Gothi-cized?a rugged, buttressed mass, patterned with ogival decoration, which will ultimately surge upward in an enormous square tower. Presumably the Catholic Archbishop wished to confront the neighboring Anglican diocese with a different architecture as well as creed...