Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call upon President Coolidge and the State Department to put an end to the ignominious contempt which has been shown by Calles for Americans. The period of 'watchful waiting' or any other such procedure is over. We, as American citizens, demand of our Government that this action be taken forthwith. Although our Government has for years emphatically refused to recognize the Soviet regime of Russia, it has continued to countenance, aid and comfort the Bolshevist forces of Carranza, Obregon and Calles...
...William H. English, Manhattan banker, accompanying him on business trips in his private car, journeying to his home to shave him on Sundays. Last week Banker English gave Barber Wagner a two months' holiday in Europe. Was this, people asked, the correct tip for Mr. Wagner's period of service? What is the right pourboire for a 25c shave? For $1 worth of shave, haircut and conversation? The tip for a 25c shave is ten cents, critics recently agreed. A talkative barber may be snubbed with no tip. It is not necessary to tip a man who shaves...
...belongs to the ages." That statement is applied to all popular painters at death, but in the case of George Romney it was singularly accurate. The ages have adopted him, his theatricality, his sentimentality, his clever color, his stilted drawing. Alone, perhaps, of all the draughtsmen of his period, he paid no attention to posterity. Therefore posterity took him to her bosom. He painted to please his patrons, to make a living. He still pleases the patrons of Sir Joseph Duveen, and the sale of one of his portraits makes the living of a dozen dealers. In his lifetime...
...Goodrich (Silvertown cords) made $7,106,616 the first half of 1925, only $1,358,616 the corresponding period of 1926. The British rubber monopoly raised production costs...
...would get his own answer. Not even the school of Fontainebleau could draw from him the tribute of imitation. "If he had been capable of instruction," said the New York Evening Post at the time of his death," he would have been the greatest landscape artist of any period or people." The pictures that he painted with such stormy concentration were usually as tranquil as twilight. Brown cows sunk in August meadows, fly-twitching, drowsily browsing; sheep streaming, grey blurs, cloud-patterned, home over a hill to a fold of peaceful and fleecy sleep; valleys folded in mist, green...