Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maurice Sterne, came from Russia to the New York East Side where he absorbed his early art training as a bar boy on the Bowery. He is obsessed with the tragedy of the loss of the art of the ancients. It is not therefore odd that his depiction of the frontierswoman should resemble a Byzantine cowgirl, shotgun in hand, fearlessly facing whatever the gods may send. Her figure, stately as a cigar store Indian, might almost be expected to be worm-eaten, so true is it to the technique of the early Renaissance...
...Nestor of funnymen, older than sly Art Young or odd Tom Powers, is Eugene ("Zim") Zimmerman, active at 65 as president of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists. Born Swiss, he early removed to Horseheads, N. Y., where now the store, hotel, firehouse and railway station are as thickly hung with his sketches as Florence is with busts of Dante...
...Hearst worth, not as a citizen, but in dollars. It would be modest to start at $25,000,000 for his string of magazines. It would be modest to add $20,000,000 for his biggest moneymaker, the New York American. It would be modest to lump his 20-odd other newspapers at $50,000,000. It is hard to price his vast holdings in Mexican realty, but $10,000,000 would not be overrating them. And much property in California and elsewhere must be added. Shrinking the total to be thoroughly conservative, a guesser might safely guess that...
These two leaves were obtained by soaking apart the bindings of an old book. This pasteboard binding had been made by glueing together odd pages, two of which were the rare old leaves now on exhibition. The leaves were used for binding because they contained errors, as was discovered by comparing them with corresponding pages of Latin editions of the same text-book for which they were intended...
...beginnings of the Orangeman's rise to fame as a Harvard character came one hot June afternoon after he had arrived in this country from Ireland. John, who at that time was earning his livelihood as an odd job man, was watching some of the students playing baseball on the Common. One of them asked him to bring them some water, and John fetched a pail of refreshment so pleasantly cooled with ice flavored with ginger ale and molasses, that the students took up a collection for him told him that if he were to buy fruit and bring...