Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the most certain thing in China, last week, was the kidnaping at Tientsin of one Aaron Brenner, 40-year-old Manhattan fur buyer, by bandits who asked $500.000 ransom...
...Ritz Tower. When he drives his special-bodied Cadillac to the American office every traffic cop grins at him gratefully, and he stops often to pass the time of day. His license plates bear the simple legend 1. The car of his beauteous young wife, San Francisco's one-time debutante Alma Walker, has the license number 2. Hearst Jr. has not forgotten his Hollywood friends; Cinemactors Norman Kerry and Charles Farrell are among his intimates. With Songwriter Irving Berlin, Lawyer Richard Knight and other conspicuous Manhattanites, he nightclubs in moderation up and down Broadway...
...beautiful? Is she thin, fat, dropsical, anemic, senile, kittenish or reptilian? Last week Manhattanites asked these questions about Maria Lani, French cinemactress. For in the august Brummer Gallery was an exhibition of 51 representations of this one woman. She was "done" in marble, metal, paint, on a platter, on a piece of glass...
There were 47 works by French painters and sculptors, two by French poets, one by a dressmaker.* With the exception of Pablo Picasso, almost every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a Spectre. One painter gave her 14 eyes, another seven, another one. She was seen as a machine, as a horned toad, as a Negress. Galleryman Brummer shrewdly put no photographs of her on exhibition...
...himself an assistant instructorship in public speaking and worked his way through his Senior year. In Chicago, where he went to work (for $10 weekly) for Western Electric, he found that his address, chosen for cheapness, excited criticism; further discovered that he had innocently selected a room in one of the Loop's worst dives. Solution: He moved, paid more rent, still made his $10 serve. In 1907 came a really major trouble. Summoned to Manhattan to be assistant to the president of Trust Co. of America, Mr. Mitchell had hardly unpacked his grip when the Panic of 1907 arose...