Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amateur devotee in search of mentors to guide him through the mazes of art has never had greater riches spread before him than in the present season. Sir William Orpen's Outline (TIME, Oct. 15) is pretty narrowly limited to painting. One wishing a diverting catalogue of the famous individual pictures of the world need go no further...
John Bull, in a genial mood, waved his hand in magnanimous assent. As far as he is concerned Uncle Sam may search rum ships not only three miles at sea, but a dozen miles at sea and even further...
...That U. S. vessels will have the right to search British ships for rum "within an hour's sailing distance of the American shore." This gives the U. S. Government all the authority that it may desire for checking the activities of ships supplying rum runners beyond the three-mile limit...
...village in Provence. There in a small stucco cottage he lived till his death, a gentle, philosophical hermit, finding on his harmas a paradise of swarming insects. With tweezers, magnifying glass, tin box, he collected his living specimens, observed them in their diggings and dwellings, their battles, their search for food, their loves and hates, family life, births, deaths. "The scalpel of the experts," wrote Fabre, "has made us acquainted with his [the scorpion's] organic structure; but no observer . . . has thought of interviewing him, with any sort of persistence, on the subject of his private habits. Ripped...
...poetic atmosphere . . . technical shortcomings as a singer . . . indistinct pronunciation.' My husband, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who usually is on hand to play my piano parts, was not present. Boris, King of Rumania: "The American press made much of a rumor that I plan to come to America in search of a wealthy wife. The Daily News, tabloid newspaper of Manhattan, was bold enough to nominate various candidates for my hand. First, Miss Millicent Rogers, who ' despite her industrial wealth does not look like an American. . . . When she appeared at the Southampton Street Fair ... in a hindu costume. . . .' Secondly, Miss...