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...scholarly, lively, devout, belligerent Roman Catholic, living in France. In company with his compatriots Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Montague Summers, his Catholicism makes him an apologist for the Middle Ages, a contemner of his own. Author D. B. Wyndham Lewis has also written François Villon...
...Mingott Katherine Stewart Mr. Henry Van Den Luyden Frank Andrews Julius Beaufort Arnold Korff May Van Den Luyden Susan Blake Newland Archer John Marston Countess Olenska Katharine Cornell The Duke of St. Austrey Robert Hobbs Anastasia Giannina Gatti Stephen Letterblair Albert Tavernier Carlos Saramonte Edouard La Roche Jean Pierre Villon Newland Archer, Jr. Henry Richards...
...motorcar marked the passing of the trainride-stealing American bum, with his curious lingo. That there have never been a dozen masters in this profession is proved by the confusion of terms. To the next generation, the argot of the American hobo will be as incomprehensible as that of Villon's thieves, because apparently there is no one capable of setting them down now. Why doesn't TIME, for a time, open its columns to authoritative bum's language, so that the poets and novelists of future days will have something to go by when mooning over...
...France did not stop with the post-impressionists, the present day tendencies are represented by the work of Matisse, Picasso, Gromaire, Villon, and Braque. The exhibition is the largest of its kind shown in America up to the present time, and an interested public now has an opportunity to trace the complicated development of the nineteenth century. In this period new creative forces were stirring--new ideals arose which sought expression in new forms. The age was weary of revivals, always a sign of creative weakness. It had had enough of academic rules and formulae long since outworn...
California's Hiram Johnson declared that the treaty's advocates had "analyzed it practically into disintegration." He said he would vote "under no delusions at all." He quoted the swashbuckling versifier François Villon...