Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action takes place in a sort of freak and side show in Vienna, and is compact and admirably simple...
...political cartoon is a sort of picture editorial. The narrative cartoon is by far the easiest form. The cartoonist can work a series around the adventures of certain characters, like the Gumps or the Joneses, or use a joke as the basis of the cartoon as Bud Fisher does so often in "Mutt and Jeff." These methods are comparatively simple...
There was apparently no sort of activity from the art of horseback riding in which Leonardo could not outshine his contemporaries. Few of his paintings have survived, for he did comparatively few. His own versatility injured his greatness, for if he had concentrated in painting, instead of expending his energies in every other conceivable direction as well, he would hold an even higher place in the world of art than he does...
...essence of the American film is the strong 'heman' who landed the goods, the self-made man who struggled to the top. We want more of that type. Let us have that sort of hero, rather than the dude who spends his time at the races or in dance halls, or the type of gentleman who never worked...
...less remarkable than the Barnes Collection of modern art are Albert C. Barnes himself, the Barnes foundation and the A. C. Barnes Co., Philadelphia chemists, out of which the Barnes Collection grew. Albert C. Barnes is the sort of person who gets himself called, variously, "crazy nut," "queer fish," "genius." His personality has exasperated staid Philadelphians quite as often as his paintings have upset academicians of the school of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, whose senior member called them "rot" in 1923, after Mr. Barnes had endowed a chair in the school. Dr. Barnes, in short...