Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wynn, chief claimant to the title of the world's simplest person is now playing at the Shubert. There have been rival contenders for this position of honor in the past; Harpo Marx runs through a nifty exhibition every time he appears, but even he must make way for Dr. Wynn in the latter's special sphere. He was the "Perfect Fool" par excellence, and now he has out-perfected perfection if such is possible...
Briefly, thinking is a series of images. Even the ignoramus has images, but he is either incapable of being aware of them or too lazy to seize them. The greatest difficulty of the average person, Author Dimnet thinks, lies in the sorting out of confusing or conflicting images...
Many a musical person in Boston, Chicago and Manhattan felt his nose a little out of joint last week on reading a widespread report of Concert Manager George Engles. Laporte, Ind., said Manager Engles, not Boston, Chicago or Manhattan, is "the most musical city in the U. S." Nine per cent of its population (15,158) attend concerts regularly as against an average 4% for the rest of the country. Newark, Ohio, rates second with 6%. Big centres like Manhattan and Chicago, despite their great opportunities, pull down the average with less than 1% attendance. Of the larger cities, Boston...
...fascinated students Sieburth had paraphrased Schopenhauer as "the World in Terms of Woman and Thought''; then proceeded to demonstrate the philosophy in person. His women he took indiscriminately from exclusive faculty circles or from the streets and brothels - one died of despair, another married out of spite, and yet another, jealous, ruined his career. As for thought, Sieburth dissipated it in drunken orgies, then gave it up as futile; killed himself...
Duveen. For four days Sir Joseph had been a harried witness. He had flayed the Hahn picture, testily calling its left eye "dead," "very dead," and "beadlike." On the fifth day he covered the whole damozel with one more coating of scorn. "She is a fat person!" he gibed. "A peasant type." Then he joyously pointed to a reproduction of the Louvre Belle. "This is a great lady of the period." Reverting to the Hahn painting he described the shoulders as flabby, the arms as puffy, the breast as lacking modeling, the embroidery as untrue to Leonardo's period...