Word: toils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten, originally Miss Millicent Rogers of New York, famed heiress, returned to Manhattan, last week on the S. S. Western World, with her present Argentine husband after a brief honeymoon in South America. He, a warmly handsome and appetizing youth, will shortly settle down to toil as a member of J. P. Benkard & Co., Manhattan brokers...
...Calabria was "the Land of the Sybarites," citizens who inhabited the metropolis of Sibaris and were accused by the conquering Romans of sleeping upon rose leaves. Today its stupid people toil in almost feudal servitude upon lands chiefly owned by the Italian nobility. Murders are almost twice as common as in Sicily and thefts more frequent than in Sardinia...
Mahonri Young's sculpture, at the Rehn Gallery, was certainly the best exhibition seen in Manhattan since Jacob Epstein flashed his gauche madonnas on a startled babbittry (TIME, Nov. 28). Those who like to read sermons into clay could speak about the "dignity of toil." Sculptor Young had modeled peasants with sad and sensitive faces, a young girl (Spring in Brittany), Porteuse de Pain, and Porteuse de Poissons, figures of women bent beneath burdens, so as to include not a story but the pitying emotion of a fine novel in their strong and individual faces. His prizefighters were less...
...there are any conclusions to be drawn from these figures, other than ethical ones on the use of Scotch endowments, the duty of the tennis athlete is the clearest of these. Football toil has watered his courts, whitened his base lines and paid for his southern trip; courtesy, as one athlete to another, demands that he fatten the scholastic average of football by his presence on the squad. Double endeavor would perhaps create havoc among the statisticians; but that is a phenomenon, like the changing intelligence of a three letter man, which is overlooked in the Foundation's computations...
...plays opened in Manhattan last week. This is the dull season, when actors appear in Chautauqua, visit friends at the seashore, toil in stock companies, or sail for Europe. But the week was not without theatrical news of interest...