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...James A. Stillman appeared as the answer to her troubles. She bought her another Bellanca, painted a tender, feminine sky-blue. She bravely went up with her protege and returned to write a powerful piece for the New York American (Hearst). It began...
...fabulously an heiress, famously a beauty, jaunts over to Italy in her own yacht. Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...
Having bought this brilliant and tender painting, Sir Joseph assured its English owners and authorities of the government that he would leave his possession in England for a fairly long period at least before taking it to the U. S. Lady Desborough, who had inherited the canvas indirectly from the third Earl Cowper who in turn had bought it from the Niccolini Palace in Florence 150 years ago, had dealt with Sir Joseph before. In 1913 she sold him the "small Cowper Madonna," also a Raphael, which now hangs in the Widener collection at Philadelphia...
...duty is ours to make the first conciliatory tender. E. Eisenmann...
...Williams, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator, who now dozes in gardenia-scented retirement on his plantation near Yazoo City, Miss. To fill the Williams shoes, Mississippi sent to Washington Hubert Durett Stephens, a man who was considered brilliant as a youth because he started practicing law at the tender age of 20, but who has yet to distinguish himself either as a shoe-filler or as a Senator...