Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lyles spoke so quietly, so politely, so circumspectly, that none present quite realized what bitter things he was saying until he was nearly done. None thought to take his words down verbatim, yet as he finished they realized that he had pronounced a judgment as scornful as it was scathing upon a white man who is popularly supposed to be loved by Negroes- Author Carl Van Vechten of Nigger Heaven, long a cat-fancier but lately a collector as well of Negro art, a patron of Negro poets, a frequenter of Harlem cabarets and apartments...
Other famed-people who ate there were Voltaire, Bolingbroke, Pope, Congreve. But, perhaps, none were so famed in his day as Samuel Johnson, who was wont to congregate there with his cronies Oliver Goldsmith & Thomas Chatterton. The Doctor always made for the left hand room and sat at a table near the window?a table and seat that is now pointed out with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject...
...present instance. The trappings are subdued and beautiful with out being arty. The delivery and stage manner give the sense of being anthentic without being self consciously quaint The ridiculous twists that lie in wait for the archals in our day are reduced to a minimum. There is none of the vulgar and artificial that was found in "The Miracle...
Criticism for the Harvard team I have none. Coach Horween has both the opportunity and the ability to give it. I necessary and I have neither. My quarrel is with the other part of the combination which is necessary for a successful team: the student body and the cheering section...
...Chinese Actor", in lacquered poplar. Japanese art has suggested "The Conspirator", The Japanese Courtesan" and, above all, the "Ishikawa Danjuro". This last follows very closely the precedent set for this actor in Japanese prints, but the change to sculpture has been most cleverly made so that the piece loses none of its decorative effect. The "Study for a Garden Pool" shows far more independence. Here a lady in green bronze sits with easy poise so that the folds of her garments fall in a rythm of clearly defined curves. In the "Japanese Actor" a different tradition causes a different...