Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violent contrasts of light and shade are characteristic of Velasquez' early work," he said, "and is the type of thing that was done by Velasquez while he was under the influence of Jusepe de Ribera, an earlier Spaniard...
...Even though a man comes into my store dressed in rags," he said, "I always thing of what he might have been if he had had a chance. I never judge a man by his clothes...
...taken for granted, it crops out in the most unexpected places. When anybody offends you by seeming to affect an intellectual superiority, just look up his antecedents and if it turns out that he was once of our fellowship (even as a student in the Summer School) the whole thing is explained. This notion that all Harvard men run true to type has travelled...
...Little Clay Cart. That curious little back alley theatre, the Neighborhood Playhouse, pushed its memorable Grand Street Follies out of the way to do a Hindu play. A Hindu play sounds formidable, clogged with dead bodies floating down the Ganges and that sort of thing. As a matter of fact, most of the CART is comic. There are courtesans and kings, several scenes, no dramatic pyramiding as we know it. Rare colorings and scents of strange philosophies mingle swiftly with the laughter. Altogether a shrewd and sensitive experiment...
...football curtain was rung up again for one or two encores. Chief of these was at Los Angeles, whither Syracuse repaired to try the mettle of Southern California. It was a dangerous thing to do. The Trojans' chests bulged under their shirts, their linemen bulged through the Syracuse line, their backfield bulged right past the Syracuse goal, twice. In addition, Trojan Hawkins kicked a field goal. The Californians clearly outdid their visitors. Only twice did they permit big John McBride of Syracuse to get near enough to try his toe at a field goal. And both these times...