Word: sola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the rabbi of Manhattan's Spanish and Portuguese congregation, Dr. David de Sola Pool, journeyed to Newport, R. I. to help celebrate the tercentenary of the city's founding. On the Sabbath eve, in Touro Synagogue (the nation's oldest, circa 1760), Dr. de Sola Pool took part in a service recalling one in 1790, when the Jews welcomed George Washington to Newport. George Washington's reply, a famed letter, was broadcast in part by Dr. de Sola Pool in a radio speech. Excerpt...
...RALPH DE SOLA...
Parentage on father's side stems from Bolivar's Spanish aide, General Juan de Sola; on mother's side from Pennsylvania German and Huguenot stock who settled here in 1632 and fought in the Revolution...
...Nearest 20th-century equivalent to the reveries of Watteau are the paintings of a gangling, red-haired feminine exquisite, now 52, who has lived and painted in Paris for 30 years. Last week the Findlay Galleries gave Marie Laurencin her first sola show in Manhattan in five years. A cadenced critique by Vanity Fair's onetime editor, Frank Crowninshield, defended from the charge of "boudoir art" Marie Laurencin's pale, obsessive ladies, "with those undefined pools of night which are their eyes, their magnolia-soft cheeks, their plumes of periwinkle blue and lips of fadeless rose...
...guns, the Hahp! of light artillery. Immediate objective of the Anarchist Black-&-Reds was the Barcelona telephone exchange, a building almost as imposing as the telephone skyscraper of Madrid. This they seized and held for seven hours. Hero of the revolt then became Barcelona's Police Chief Rodriguez Sola, who personally led a frontal attack on the building, captured the first floor, methodically started mopping up from stair to stair...