Word: villas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven oar North Bacon, 175 lbs., from New York City, presides, while Hal Whitman, 18G lbs., from Boston takes charge of the No.6 position. The No. 5 pivot finds "Mike" Marshall 197 lb. giant from California and at No. 4 is 189 lb. Anthony Villa of New York City. Fred Herter, 179 lb, native of Boston controls the No. 3 spot, backed up by John Erskine who hails from California at No. 2. Rowing the bow oar is Everett H. Brown of Philadelphia. Both Brown and Erskine tip the scales...
...then went to Mexico and bought a radio station in Villa Acuna, across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Tex. Station XERA, called "Sunshine between the Nations," has an official wattage of 350,000 although the claim is that Brinkley recently stepped it up to 1,000,000 watts. (Since Cincinnati's station WLW lost its experimental license to use 500,000 watts, no U. S. station is permitted over 50,000.) Every night powerful XERA blares out boosts not only for Brinkley's treatments but for hair dye, life insurance, oranges, perfume and "doctor's book...
...which furnished a Baedeker guide to principal masterworks and graceful, serious essays in handily numbered paragraphs on the artists of each great Italian school. To U. S. boarding school girls abroad in well-chaperoned quest of charm, these became standard vade mecums. In 1900 prospering Mr. Berenson bought a villa near Florence and settled there for life...
...Sandro (Friend of Botticelli) to account for various pictures then attributed to Pollaiuolo, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli and others. Rich dealers and collectors sought the advice of "B. B." on doubtful pictures. They paid him well for it-so well that Berenson became rich. In the 40 rooms of the Villa I Tatti he collected a profusion of fine Renaissance furniture and paintings...
Rivera had his first taste of revolution in the Mexican revolt of 1910, when such folk heroes as Zapata and Pancho Villa swept the land with fantasy. The wave receded; Mexico slept again; Rivera went to Paris and for ten years labored at Cubism in Montparnasse. He found his true style on his return, in his great Mexican frescoes. First with a beautiful, pantherish model named Guadalupe Marin and later with pretty Frida Kahlo, Rivera lived an active revolutionary life until 1929, when the Communist Party expelled...