Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much simplified, and some pertinent questions might well be asked. What would Titian, Hals, Vermeer, Velasquez- colorists extraordinary-have said to the charge that color was only an incident to their art? Probably they would have replied in words not dissimilar to those of Ingres, when a visitor to his studio asked: " Does M. Ingres, the celebrated draughtsman, live here...
...denied that he would take the post if it were offered him. Mr. Creager was a personal friend of President Harding and has been mentioned for the post for more than two years. The impression that he would be appointed was strengthened by the fact that he was a visitor at the White House while arrangements for recognition were being made...
...plays seem to have a perpetual field on the American stage. In the present instance the sudden fortune is acquired by promoting brains. It is all rather rapid; familiarly amusing; shrewdly seasoned to the public taste. Robert Ames and Vivian Tobin are thoroughly acceptable in the leading roles. The visitor may also take delight in recognizing in the cast Flora Finch, cinema comedienne with the most angular features that ever cracked a custard...
...instant repercussion. The Austrians looked at one another with puckered brows. Said one: "He has come to take over the Styrian arms factory." Another: " He is going to produce 40,000 cars a year!' Shares in the Styrian concern were still soaring when it was discovered that the visitor was not the celebrated Detroiter, but only " a Mr. Ford from Chicago...
...work of art from the Sphinx to the Coliseum; and probably some ingenious progenitor is responsible for the present condition of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, and Venus de Milo. Innumerable replicas have saved the Lion of Lueerne, and in the Lincoln Memorial is a gentleman who follows every visitor around at a polite distance to preserve the gleaming integrity of the marble columns...