Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Griffith's "The New York Hat", produced in 1912 and numbering such immortals as Mary Pickford, Lional Barrymore and Lillian Gish in its cast, will be the first film shown. Ince's. "The Fugitive", a ruthlessly tragic drama that ushered in the peculiar "Western" era, follows...
...FATHER PAUL GAUGUIN-Pola Gauguin-Knopf ($3-75) When Paul Gauguin died of syphilis in 1903, few were really sorry. He had always been a lone wolf: as stockbroker, family man, runaway painter he had always pursued his own proud, peculiar way, and his enemies were thicker than his friends. When he died alone in his hut in the Marquesas Islands, his wife and their five children, long strangers to him, were half the world away in Denmark. Since 1903 many a critic has climbed over the fence and given Gauguin's painting nearly as high marks...
...credentials to Puppet-President Michael Kalinin (as do other members of the Moscow diplomatic corps), would wear with New Deal unostentation "simple morning clothes-silk hat, striped trousers and swallow-tailed coat" as worn by Mr. Roosevelt at his Inaugural (see p. 9). Getting at once into the peculiar atmosphere of Moscow, which was at its most ominous last week, Ambassador Davies went daily to the Old Bolsheviks Trial (see below), followed the accusations, testimony and confessions with fascinated interest as they were translated to him by Embassy underlings in rapid whispers...
...protestations of sincerity they booed and he winced. In silence they heard him say: ''I am ... convinced that any unbiased person . . . would be warranted in concluding that it was not desirable in the best interests of the university to retain Dr. Frank's services as president." Peculiar was the position of Acting President Sellery, an arch-conservative educator called affectionately by some, contemptuously by others, "The Old Tory." In 1917 he and most of the rest of Wisconsin's faculty signed a round robin denouncing old Father "Fighting Bob" La Follette for his pacifism. La Follette...
...perplexity, saying that he was her husband, and that his grandfather his father, and his grandmother his mother." One boy said he had been a soldier who had died in the ''German War": up to the age of four "he used to play frog-leap and other peculiar games. He playfully walked in military fashion and gave cautions." Mr. Yeats-Brown revisited his old friends Sir Rabindranath Tagore and Sir JagadisBose, botanist famed for his experiments on the nervous systems of plants...