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...longer. But it is some years since she began popping out these oaths; you expect them now, and feel a little cheated when she fails you. She fails often in Death and Taxes, is sometimes reminiscent of minor-but-masculine Poet A. E. Housman, more often of Any Sentimentalist. A Parthian poetess, her chief claim to attention still resides in her parting kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parting Kicker | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Thinking it over on the way home, the Vagabond was not sorry. He has never been what the middle west vulgarly calls "collegiate," but he is a sentimentalist--which is a refined collegiatism. He was glad to see that men who have left the gates of Harvard two and three years behind can still maintain that joy of youth which is the graduate's greatest heritage. It was reassuring to know that adolescense is immortal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/26/1931 | See Source »

Last week to the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery went Mr. & Mrs. Henry Holiday Timken (roller bearings) of Canton, Ohio bearing as gifts three large and very expensive oil paintings: a Penitent Magdalen by the 17th Century Spanish sentimentalist Murillo; a Sybil by Murillo's contemporary Ribera, exhibiting his usual spotlight effect; and largest, most expensive of all, a Holy Family presumably from the brush of Peter Paul Rubens. Because Rubens is known to have employed a factory of pupils and assistants, and every Rubens painting is suspect, the usual battle of Rubenographers arose last week. Two similar Holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mechanical Muralist | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...need. Without telling you anything new, he often makes you aware of what you already know, gives details as positively and clearly as the motorist's Blue Book. "Women invented love, and men fidelity. No! this is not a paradox. The strongest man hides within him a shamefaced sentimentalist, and the weakest woman a stern realist." Author Paul Géraldy, 45, aphorist. playwright, poet, sometimes called "the de Musset of the 20th Century," is author of Toi et Moi, once largest-selling book of poetry. He has seen many a play of his produced at the Comedie Fran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love by the Book | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

Shocked British bankers and investors last week read a bulletin written by Oswald T. Falk, member of the London house of Buckmaster & Moore. Broker Falk advised all his clients to sell all their British stocks and buy stock of U. S. or colonial enterprises. No sentimentalist, he did not even palliate his statement in the manner of the Stock Exchange Gazette (London) which declared: "Hard times get the best out of individuals and out of nations. . . . The pent-up energies of this nation will not be restrained forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Britain Sold Short | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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