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...credited his choice of Lisa to a manuscript by an anonymous Florentine who, in fact, does not mention a Leonardo portrait of Lisa. On the other hand, he found a profile study of Isabella by Leonardo in Vienna's Imperial Museum and another in Leonardo's signet ring in the royal archives in Mantua. His difficulty was that the Mona Lisa is nearly full-face, but he thought he saw similarities. Probing on, he found a Leonardo statue in Berlin whose profile strongly resembles the known Isabella profiles. Seen full-face, this statue markedly resembles the Mona Lisa...
...half-world knew what to expect. With glittering eyes they hurried to his apartment. This time a whole cordon of secret police were waiting at the door. Many times had the Baron Sosnowski been suspected of espionage. No charge ever stuck. He blamed his luck on a curious signet ring that he always wore. Several weeks before this last party he lost his ring pulling the Baroness von Berg's puppy from a canal...
Haskins was the president of the Critic and is a member of the Advocate board and the Signet Society. Both he and Barber are graduates of Exeter...
Gortrude Stein will probably explain why she has submitted the English language to such uneasy nightmares when she speaks before the Signet Society at eight o'clock this evening at its clubhouse, 46 Dunster Street. Her topic will be "Grammar and Poetry...
Writers, who feel that they must find a new medium for their ideas, will be offered their chance when Gertrude Stein speaks before the Signet Society on Monday evening at eight o'clock in the Clubhouse on Dunster Street. For her topic, she has chosen. "Grammar and Poetry," or was it "Grammar is Poetry, Poetry, Grammar Grammar...