Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humble schoolmaster before entering the British colonial service in Nigeria in 1906. While in West Africa he rose from Assistant Resident, Northern Nigeria to Director of Education of the Southern Provinces. By last week he was safe in comfortable anonymity as King George's representative in St. Vincent, British West Indies. Last week clamorous cables had thrust Governor Grier and his miniscule island into world headlines, sent a British survey ship scudding up from Grenada to land Marines with fixed bayonets to restore order...
...Harvard team will be made up of W. Tucker Dean '37, and Hubert H. Nexon '37, speakers; Vincent Rossi '38, and William Hancock '38, alternates...
...beginnings of modern art. The great painters of the Renaissance were without exception prosperous men who generally made, if they did not keep, large fortunes. Currently, able artists as far apart as Philip de László and Pablo Picasso are wealthy men. But poor crazy Vincent van Gogh sold only two paintings in his life, received $4 for the first, $80 for the second. He also was able to sell about 20 drawings at an average price of $1.25 each. Today his brilliant landscapes fetch as much as $50,000 apiece...
None of the founders of modern art has been richer game for the journalist than Vincent van Gogh. Within the past two years two lives of him have been best sellers, one a novel, Lust for Life by Irving Stone,* another a scholarly biography by able Art Critic Julius Meier-Graefe (TIME...
...panels of public-minded citizens in 1,700 U. S. cities. Special panels of experts are maintained for technical trade disputes. In Manhattan the AAA has nearly 1,500 in its panels including names like Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Lawyer James M. Beck, Cineman Jesse Lasky, Funnyman Eddie Cantor, Mrs. Vincent Astor. The arbitrators serve free, are called two or three times a year, may be excused if busy...