Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That headline, that poetry and the sketch of "John's Wife" with her mouth open heavenward in praise of a drunkard's nostrum or reaching for "John's" de-alcoholized kiss-last week commanded attention in many a U. S. newspaper which profits from quack-advertisements. Presumably, enough whiskey continues available in the U. S. to gamble that a good percentage of newspaper readers would "fall" for a cure. Such cure Dr. J. W. Haines, of Cincinnati, offered to provide in his powders. They contain milk sugar, starch, capsicum (pepper) and a minute amount of ipecac...
Emil Ludwig (biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck, Wilhelm II) neglected to fulfill a lecture engagement in Milwaukee, Wis.; went to Daytona Beach, Fla., to visit John D. Rockefeller; watched the 88-year-old oilman play golf; said, "When I return to Germany I may write a sketch of Mr. Rockefeller." Mr. Ludwig recently let it be known that he considered the four greatest living U. S. persons to be Thomas A Edison, Jane Addams, Orville Wright, John D. Rockefeller...
...Pierre Monteux conducted the Philadelphian orchestra in the absence of its regular leader, Leopold Stokowski, a onetime winner of the Bok Prize. The other winners were all present except for the late Dr. Russel H. Conwell ("Acres of Diamonds") ; there was Samuel S. Fleisher, founder of the Graphic Sketch Club; Charles Custis Harrison, onetime provost of the University of Pennsylvania; Samuel Yellin, master ironworker; Dr. Chevalier Jackson, who "devised" the bronchoscope. Tension in the audience increased as Congressman James M. Beck began to speak...
...Hickman cartoon (which deserved more notice than it got), is the best of the drawings. But Personalities No. 5. is good also. And anyway who cares if the drawing is not on a par with what the Department of Fine Arts has been able to produce? The sketches also struck a responsive chord in me--particularly a small sketch hidden away on page 289, untitled, unadorned. There is no use in going over the whole number in these columns, they suit better their natural habitat. Let the Jester mourn. When he does, we can smile; it is only when...
...scarce. She is not in the Social Register. She is mentioned sparingly in the standard life of her husband.* It was undoubtedly a social service, therefore, and perhaps a political service, when Parker Lloyd-Smith, able young editorial writer of the Albany Knickerbocker-Press (Republican), last week published a sketch of Mrs. "Katie" Smith...