Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Homer St. Gaudens spent much of his youth in the circle of artists and writers gathered around his famed father. He, too, decided to become an artist, went first to Germany, then to Paris, where he studied drawing. Many of his drawings were sent back to the loving parent for criticism...
Representatives of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Federation of Women's Foreign Mission Societies, Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations, National Council of Women, National League of Women Voters, Daughters of the American Revolution, Women's Christian Temperance Association, and the Young Women's Christian Association, arose, one after the other, and pledged their 10,000,000 membership to the movement...
...America, the fairy tale industry lacks material with which to work, although George Washington and his clever retort with reference to falsehoods furnishes a not unsuitable starting point. The folk-lore of parent countries has not as yet been acclimated. But Professor William Lyon Phelps reputed reaction to "Peter Pan" (See Donald Ogden Stewart) illustrates plainly the appeal which these fables retain even for such highly intelligent subjects, Their magnetic, vitalizing influence on the masses cannot be overestimated...
...Henry Flake 3rd, Scholarship for study at the University of Cambridge, England, must be filed with the President of the University by Friday, March 31. Lieutenant Fiske who was a member of the class of 1919, was killed in the World War, and the scholarship was established by his parent to permit a student to pursue his study for a year in Cambridge University, England...
...story which Wagner used for his Tristan is a story which has woven its spell around many another artist in tone or words. Poets without number have used it. It is perhaps the parent of the triangle-play; the plot is one which, if new, might cause as great a stir as that of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (see Page 16). For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan...