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...that Frenchman's own style but also a history of Impressionism. Starting with the grey, rather sharply painted Hyde Park, London (1870) and the blue and bright Canotiers à Argenteuil, done in 1875 in a technique that now seems more modern than his later work, the canvases trace Monet's growing absorption in sunlight and the interplay of colors, down to one of his famed arrangements of water lilies in a misty light, painted in 1899 when he seemed to have lost all interest in form as such...
...largely through a 2?-per-cubic-yard tribute which he, as president of the New Orleans Levee Board, exacted from dredging contractors. The defense maintained that these payments were simply political contributions which passed through Shushan's hands as a collector for the Long machine. The Government traced large sums of Defendant Shushan's "political" income to personal expenditures, while the defense could trace only $44,000 to the Long treasury...
Strip Girl (by Henry Rosendahl; L. Lawrence Weber, producer) contains some of the toughest talk heard on the Broadway stage this season, a trace of burlesque atmosphere, a strip queen (Mayo, Methot) who takes pride in her work, a loose, undigested story in 23 scenes, practically nothing else...
...Franskin's university no building remain, Rutgers was weak and Dartmouth poor, and none that lasted were built until after the War. The only trace of King's College's first hall is in an engraving of honor of Christrofor Colombo...
Courad Aiken possess a tremendous ability to trace and realize the aberrations and fixations of the human mental mechanism which he displays impressively in King Coffin. The whole study is brilliantly worked out, convincingly set down. If is a document that should endure