Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The trustees refused to countenance even a temporary exhibition at the Library. So the Fulop patrons, acting anonymously through some attorneys named Saul, shipped the work to a Manhattan gallery, anticipated critical applause which, they hoped, would shame their mulish townsmen.
Critic Royal Cortissoz of the New York Herald-Tribune: "Some imaginative ambition presumably is involved . . . but it has not been at all tangibly realized."
Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times: ". . . There are some big bells swinging?bells about the size that Mrs, Leslie Carter used to swing from, so long, so long ago, in Mr. Belasco's Heart of Maryland. . . . One adoring saint on the right is holding a violin . . . another...
It was the elimination race to see who shall represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Cup Race abroad. Night came on. Rain, snow, conflicting winds buffeted the bags. Some bumped into mountains, crashed into barns. One was almost run down by a night-flying mail plane. Day broke...
The financial condition of the Debating Council is admitted by its officials to be bad. One debate of the previous season brought the Council fifteen hundred dollars. A year later, after scores of other debates, some with paying audiences of five hundred dollars on the wrong side. The vote of...