Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's greatest and most completely self-made philanthropist is today Lord Nuffield, raised in the New Year's Honors list from baron to viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...
...Ellen Morris Cam bios Noe (pronounced Noy), wife of the dean and mother of his two daughters, left the deanery, brought suit for divorce. Dean Noe had ceased marital relations with her, believing that childbirth might endanger her health and that "the only Christian standard of birth control is self control." Mrs. Noe lost her suit (TIME, March 14, 1932, et ante), remained separated from the dean until last month. By that time Dean Noe had embarked upon the course which doctors and friends said last week could end only in death or forced feeding...
...work of the Carnegie First Prize Winner of 1935. A specialist in china-clear coloring and slightly rococo composition, Artist de Caviedes brought none of his paintings with him when he hurriedly left Madrid a year ago, last week displayed mostly new pictures done in Cuba, including a starchy self-portrait (see cut). Hard for hard- shelled critics to resist were his cloudless canvases of Jark-skinned Cuban musicians and dancers, bright still-lifes, chic panels entitled Angel Musicians, Voluptuousness of the Rain. Artist de Caviedes left Spain because he had been painting murals in the Vatican just before...
...most gallery-goers Curry's new Self Portrait (see cut) was not only an honest and successful job but the likeness of a more mature if not a more professorial artist. And thepossibility that Curry critics might soon have to shake their heads up & down instead of from side to side was evident in a few rough sketches for the murals he has been commissioned to paint for the Kansas State Capitol at Topeka...
...chutes ride, with shrieks and giggles on the hairpin .turns and a happy splash at the end. With all the shiny morality and cultural lag of an old Will Hays collar, Mannequin tells the tale of a slum girl who tries to dodge her environment by marrying a self-confessed heel, gets a shot from love's hypo herself when she meets an honest tugboat tycoon...