Word: seene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Success", as presented by the Harvard players, will be seen in this country for the first time. The play has been done before in England, with Charles Cherry in the leading role...
...exhibition included Editor Frank Crowninshield of smartchart Vanity Fair, Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, Dealers Paul Reinhardt and John F. Kraushaar, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn. They gave an aura of respectability to the exhibition which might have amused the little, consumptive painter. People who would not have been seen talking with him now pay $20,000 for his canvases, eulogize him over their teacups as a great genius. For in his day Modigliani was the butt of ribaldry. Derisive fingers were pointed at the elongated necks, piggy eyes, distorted sloping shoulders, characteristic of the Modigliani manner...
Sometime after the sale, a Viennese dealer called upon Dealer Demotte, told him of a diptych he had seen in the treasury of Zagreb Cathedral in Jugoslavia...
Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest. By few white men's eyes have these curious creatures ever been seen. Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Johnson, famed intrepid jungleers, set off last week from Manhattan with eight motor cars, many tons of camp & photographic supplies, two batteries of sound-cinema equipment, two dozen automatic cameras, cinema cameras so that U. S. movie audiences may buzz with wonder at the sound and sight of the Congo's animal wonders...
...house) on wheels. In a great wooden tabernacle Evangelist Billy Sunday shouted against sin. The oldsters knew what he was talking about. They knew how the cowboys of the '70s spent their holidays in Dodge City. They had seen desperados run amuck, had joined in quick, relentless justice. Remembering, they climbed Dodge City's famed Boot Hill, burial place of many men and one woman* who died "with their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still...