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Said Baruch: any contract would be "illusory" if a co-signer could repudiate it at will; i.e.,'by a veto...
News of the party was released yesterday and spread quickly around the Square, a number of wolves having howled already at the doors of 14 Plympton Street. One signer wanted to know of the CRIMSON weather bureau predicted a cold night for next Saturday...
...Spiritual Wives." By that time, Watts' silky beard was greying and he was known as "Signer" to many a famous, whiskered Victorian. Statesman Gladstone and Disraeli, Poets Tennyson and Browning, Novelists Thackeray and George Eliot, Ruskin, and the young pre-Raphaelite Painters Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt all came to pose, or admire, or talk shop with the artist, and to take tea in the cozy atmosphere provided by his "spiritual wives" (other men's wives who mothered him). His famed Hope, Fata Morgana, and Una and the Red Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough...
...Utmost. Back in England, they built a country home with a gigantic studio, a gallery open to the public, and a niche where the old Signer could relax on a red silk couch while Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost...
Died. André Tardieu, 68, bustling three-time Premier of France (1929, 1930, 1932), last surviving French signer of the Treaty of Versailles; after long illness; in Menton, France (according to the Swiss radio). Once known as "L'Américain" for his blunt, go-getting ways, he said before the war that Germany "neither wants nor is able to make...