Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lift her skirts, flounce down a Presbyterian church aisle while her mother's head was bowed solemnly in prayer. As her legs grew longer, Martha Graham was more & more determined to dance, had to be reminded time & again that her mother was a Standish, ninth direct descendant of Pilgrim Miles. When she was 10, the family moved to California, where she saw Ruth St. Denis, then absorbed by the fluent Oriental postures inspired by a cigaret advertisement which she had seen posted in a drugstore window...
...praise of the physical handsomeness of the book and the unhackneyed portraits of the authors used as illustrations. The book is almost worth owning for Henry Lamb's remarkable portrait of Strachey. On the other hand, there is much unaccountable carelessness in the text; the name of the pilgrim ship in "Lord Jim" is the "Patna," not the "Patria;" the protagonist of "Antic Hay" is Gumbril, not Gombauld; D. H. Lawrence died and was buried at Vence, in the South of France, not at Venice...
...hitherto unknown drawings reached the Modern Galleries through a retired manufacturer of lantern slides whose name the gallery proprietor last week stanchly refused to reveal. In 1874 the slide-maker had gone quietly to Joseph Boggs Beale and asked him to do a set of drawings to illustrate Pilgrim's Progress. They were a great success with Epworth Leagues and Sunday Schools. Soon the slide-maker asked for other drawings, in black & white, to illustrate books that he one day hoped to publish. From 1880 to 1900, methodical Joseph Boggs Beale produced drawings, always in the same technique, always...
...important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover, who attends no rallies, wanted to see him first. What they had to discuss appeared that evening when a newshawk caught up with Pilgrim Hoover in Chicago. In one sentence Mr. Hoover described their conference...
Corliss Lamont '24, flayed William Randolph Hearst and Hamilton Fish, Jr. '10, in his speech to a scattered few Friends of the Soviet Union assembled at Ford Hall last night. He remarked cryptically that "Ham Fish represented the Pilgrim Fathers, and would have served his country a great deal better if he had kept playing football instead of going into politics." He intimated that Hearst had cooperated with Hitler in attacking the Soviet Union...