Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content with this triumph over the system he plans a still more drastic experiment and refuses an invitation to Sunday night supper in order to test the effect of seven dinenrs, seven lunches, and no breakfast. Sunday night he gets an even greater thrill, for by eating all his breakfasts in the Square, which is a great inconvenience because he has no nine o'clock and being, as you see, a conscientious fellow, has reserved this hour for study in his room, he finds that he has received $9.80 worth of food for only $8.50. But just...
...thin boy with his piping voice made up well in the part. When he was a little older he worked in art theatres. Sam Harris put him on contract. He made hits in such plays as We Americans and Four Walls. He was pleased with Seven Faces because it gave him a chance to exercise his hobby?facial makeup. He likes fights, football games, concerts, is bored by tennis, can play the violin. His two brothers are professional musicians. He dislikes applause and has his hair cut short so as not to look like an actor. Recently he made another...
...years (newspaper cartoons, stained glass windows, smartchart layouts for Vogue, oils of every description). Large and athletic, with a greying red beard, a monkish bald spot, he likes modern French painting less than modern Mexican painting. When Mexican Diego Rivera's paintings (TIME, May 6) were first hung, seven people were shot. Says Robinson: "I'd be glad if someone stepped on a policeman's toe when I show mine...
...Seven years after President Harper took office, a boy was born to William James Hutchins and his wife, in Brooklyn. William James Hutchins is now president of Little Berea College (Berea, Ky.). The son, who was named Robert Maynard Hutchins, now 30, is the young man who, called like William Rainey Harper from Yale, was inducted as President Harper's fourth successor at Chicago...
...national committee which the once "insane" Clifford Whittingham Beers organized has successfully toiled in all states to improve the custody and treatment of the mentally unbalanced. With the help of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness' commonwealth fund, it has established child guidance clinics to prevent mental troubles, Twenty-seven other countries have taken up the movement. Their representatives will meet at Washington next May as the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene. President Hoover is honorary president of the congress. Dr. William Alanson White of St. Elizabeth Hospital, Washington, who spoke lengthily at the Manhattan dinner last week, is actual...