Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bomb-throwers of the art world, none other than the terrible-tem-pered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, millionaire inventor of Argyrol and owner of the finest private collection of modern French paintings in the U. S. Dr. Barnes was incensed by the Museum's statement that "a second version, and a slightly smaller picture" of Les Grandes Baigneuses was in the Barnes Foundation collection. In response he roared that the Barnes Bathers had been painted eight years before the Widener Bathers, that the latter was "monotonous, dry and lusterless" by comparison. Cracked "Argyrol" Barnes...
...parted to reveal the late handsome Field Marshal George Alexander Eugene Douglas, Earl Haig in conservative bronze. Conservative was the mildest word many British artists had for this third effort of Sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman, A. R. A., who has been badgered for eight years about his designs. His version of the field marshal's cavalry horse was once described by Lady Haig as "monstrous." She also considered it unnatural that the field marshal's head should be hatless. From the ceremony last week, performed by the Duke of Gloucester in the presence of 2,000 military...
Cautiously pointing out that the circumstances of Marlowe's death may have been accidental. John Bakeless' version nevertheless supports those who believe that Marlowe was a spy. On May 30. 1593. Marlowe had been in London for six years. He had written three sensationally successful tragedies, including Tamburlaine, "the most important event in the history of English literature," and his most recent play. Edward the Second, while not as successful as his first, showed greater mastery of his art. Leaving London to escape the plague, he had been recalled by the authorities two weeks before...
...other colleges had adopted the Yale rules, but Harvard went serenely ahead playing her own game. Yale gave in anyway, and spent a week learning the Cambridge version of the game, with disastrous results...
...most colorful sporting events in the whole sport world, the fifty-sixth version of the Harvard-Yale football game will be unfolded in the Stadium this afternoon...