Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saint Phalles...
When the Manhattan brokerage house of de Saint Phalle & Co. last month divulged (to customers, thence to prying newsgatherers) its balance sheet, the other 614 member houses of the New York Stock Exchange confessed their surprise. Neither brokerage houses, such as de Saint Phalle, nor banking houses, such as J. P. Morgan & Co., are inclined to follow corporation practice and announce their financial standing. De Saint Phalle & Co., revealed total assets of some $33,000,000. Last week it appeared that the same prosperous, socially prominent de Saint Phalles* would sponsor yet another innovation. Within two months, their office...
...head of the firm is Fal de Saint Phalle, whose clubs include the Knickerbocker, the Tuxedo, and the Turf and Field, whose wife is the daughter of Mrs. E. Guidet Auchincloss, of Paris. The wives of partners Alexandre and Count Andre de Saint Phalle are sisters. They were Helen and Jacqueline Harper, daughters of Donald Harper, of Paris, who has been mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France. His son, Donald Jr., is a partner in de Saint Phalle & Co. Partner Francois de Saint Phalle manages the Philadelphia office. Before forming the present firm, Fal de Saint Phalle...
...Holy Family and the other a classical scene. "Diana" by Tintoretto, a picture which Mr. Sachs lends annually to the Fogg for a period of six months, also appears in this gallery. John Nicholas Brown '22 has lent to the Museum an excellent picture by El Greco entitled "Saint Dominic." Most of the important paintings which were removed from this room to make space for the French exhibition have been returned from storage, among them the Ross Tintoretto...
...documents two of which were "spurious, very spurious, absolutely spurious." Scholar that he was, his critical sense was temporarily submerged by an enthusiasm caught from the great humanists of his period. Some time later he abandoned both science and the humanities to play the monk at the Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, a Paradise, he said, of healthfulness, amenity, serenity, delight and all honest pleasures of agriculture and rustic life. . . . But Rabelais could not remain in a Paradise, any more than Eve; like her he was too full of curiosity. Chastised for heresy and impiety, accused of Calvinism, drunkenness...