Word: philadelphianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barnes Foundation is five years old, endowed in perpetuity by proceeds from the chemical business, one of whose big money-makers is Argyrol (silver preparation for infected mucous membranes). From Argyrol to Art seems a long way to many a Philadelphian, but in the dictionary of Dr. Albert C. Barnes the two words are almost adjacent...
...wish to make it plain that we are more interested in contributing to the great architecture of the world than in standardizing the bricks and mortar of which it must be made." Thus Milton B. Medary Jr., Philadelphian, president of the American Institute of Architects, epitomizing the purpose for which the Institute has reorganized its Committee on Allied Arts. In order to emphasize their profession as an Art, the architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome...
...Empress of Siam. Soon his presence was reported in Princeton. Denied access to the campus he was receiving young men at his lodging in the town. Realizing that among the first to visit Mr. Buchman would most likely be the leaders of the campus religious organization, the Philadelphian Society, the students attended a mass meeting and voted, 394 to 18, that President Hibben appoint a committee to investigate the Philadelphian Society for "undesirable Buchmanism." There was also a vote of 253 to 85 to the effect that "undesirable Buchmanism" was actually in vogue with the Philadelphian Society. Ironically, the mass...
...then it has rarely seemed impressive against Tilden these last several years. Johnston can nearly always beat Vincent Richards, though Richards beats the champion oftener than anybody else. In the Davis Cup matches Johnston has made a better record than Tilden. But on the court with the bleak-faced Philadelphian his strength becomes as thistledown. In curious truth, the very soundness and accuracy of his game are helpful to the champion. Tilden likes speed. He likes a high-bounding ball. Johnston gives him both. Although "Vinny" Richards often beats Tilden, he did not last week. With a devastating return...
...Three Chevaliers of the Latin Quarter were there-F. A. Bridgman, the 79-year-old Alabaman who paints in Algiers mostly and won his first salon medal in 1877; George Rowland of New York, aged 61, landscapist; and T. Alexander Harrison, 73, originally a Philadelphian but, like the other two, so long a resident of France that his hands have learned to talk, and the feeling of his landscapes takes you back to the best days of the Barbizon school. All three are members of the Legion d'Honneur; all three have contributed to the spring salon since...