Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...romantic Italian Count and the thwarted life of his son. Hubert and Minnie relates the abortive misconduct of an unwilling young man and a willing young woman. Fard, short and not without poignancy, is no more than a snapshot of an overworked chambermaid and her temperamental mistress. The Portrait describes the selling of a fake Old Master. Young Archimedes discovers an infant mathematical prodigy, recounts his frustration and early suicide. All the stories are careful, ambitious work. All are dull...
WHAT PRICE GLORY-Mayor Hylan and the U. S. Army entered a public conspiracy to throttle the best play of the fall. Hylan snorts at the swear words; the Army dislikes the frankly severe portrait of 'Marines at home in the trenches...
...much food for the thought of parents and pedagogs on higher education in the U. S. It published speculations by one Irwin Edman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, upon the mentality, moods and the painful dilemma of "Richard Kane," undergraduate of today, brother of "Ferguson-Rex," whose portrait appeared last month in the Atlantic Monthly (TIME, Sept...
...commanding the presence of Joseph Schwartz, famed baritone, she went to his home and listened to soft music and beautiful singing. As if this were not bad enough, she interested herself in the plays of Socialist Gerhart Hauptmann and Communist Ernst Toller. ¶ Recently, vainglorious Wilhelm II had two portraits painted. In one, he was dressed as a general; in the other, as an Arctic explorer. The story (probably false) said that even the respectful and faithful servants of His ex-Majesty were convulsed with laughter every time they looked at the latter's portrait. ¶ The German veterans...
POINCARÉ - Sisley Huddleston - Little Brown ($2.50). Called a biographical portrait, this book attempts to solve the enigma which the French call Poincaré. The author is not particularly successful. He hardly pierces the veil of the unknown that hangs around the ex-Premier, but he makes many shrewd comments and gives some first-hand impressions of the man who has "les poings, poings, poings . . . les poings carres...