Word: ruggedness
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Chairman Brent. This man was Bishop Charles Henry Brent of the Episcopal diocese of Western New York. Canadian-born and educated, naturalized in the U. S., an obscure worker in the awkward robes of the Cowley Fathers among the poor of Boston, later (under Bishop Phillips Brooks) an Episcopal rector...
With his heavy jaw set against the odds and his bright eyes on Heaven, the rugged old crusader succeeded in organizing the theatre of his inspiration at Bayreuth in 1876. Since then, the Wagnerian operas have been presented as he wished, but the scores are not burned nor is the...
It is Jove, Author Halliburton explains, angrily tossing thunderbolts because a whimsical, gay, incorrigible, dramatic, inspired, etc. young Amercian is at the beetling, rugged, sacrosanct, fierce, rugged, granite pinnacle of Mt. Olympus and proposes to spend the night.
Rockwell Kent paints only his adventures. Wherever he sails he is on the watch for rugged seascapes. He does no portrait work on order. Nor does he paint for a living. He lives first and paints afterward. His last trip was to Ireland. Consequently his recent exhibition at the Wildenstein...
Bluff, white-haired John Markle, coal man, chewing a fat cigar, sat at a luncheon table in the Waldorf-Astoria last week, heard Charles Michael Schwab say: "John Markle, you stand for my ideal of American manhood. . . . You have always tried to appear as a roughneck sort of fellow but...