Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mechanics, engineering and natural philosophy were among the fields to which this extraordinary man turned his talents. To this versatility he added an extremely personable person, a polished charm, and an aptitude for any accomplishment...
James A. Reed, Missouri Senator, tried to look puzzled as he reverted to his game of baiting the White House spokesman. "Why don't the newspapers photograph the White House spokesman?" said he to reporters. "What does this mysterious person look like? The newspapers are always printing pictures of people prominent in the news. The White House spokesman is always being quoted. He is constantly in the news. But I've never yet seen a picture...
...less remarkable than the Barnes Collection of modern art are Albert C. Barnes himself, the Barnes foundation and the A. C. Barnes Co., Philadelphia chemists, out of which the Barnes Collection grew. Albert C. Barnes is the sort of person who gets himself called, variously, "crazy nut," "queer fish," "genius." His personality has exasperated staid Philadelphians quite as often as his paintings have upset academicians of the school of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, whose senior member called them "rot" in 1923, after Mr. Barnes had endowed a chair in the school. Dr. Barnes, in short...
...left the room, running. Pandemonium continued. Ears ached, foreheads throbbed. There was no denying that all the noises in the U. S. had been reproduced except the explosion of Black Tom. That might come at any moment. But no-after an inferno that only a very serious person could have invented came silence. The Manhattanites gasped, a few clapped, many cat-called and hooted. Arguments raged for blocks around as the noise-beaten crowd dispersed through the whispering city. Critics. In Europe, Composer Antheil was most thoughtfully pondered. The critics of the Manhattan newspapers derided, ignored. Said Critic Chotzinoff...
...Sears ($2.50). The title of this tale, the purple cover which surrounds its 384 pages, are good hints. In a style which appears to be the offspring of a union between A. S. M. Hutchinson and the King James Version of the Bible, Author Stern, in the first person, unfolds the humdrum history of a young writer, later turned advertising man, later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital. Yet when Author Stern comes to realize...