Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus it was an intellectual husband of a Doctor of Philosophy as well as a keen and forceful financier who presided over the most nerve-wracking crisis in U. S. business history...
...Modiglianis were pompously hung and framed. Well-tailored attendants mingled with the visitors, distributed lavish programs. The lenders of the canvases to the exhibition included Editor Frank Crowninshield of smartchart Vanity Fair, Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, Dealers Paul Reinhardt and John F. Kraushaar, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn. They gave an aura of respectability to the exhibition which might have amused the little, consumptive painter. People who would not have been seen talking with him now pay $20,000 for his canvases, eulogize him over their teacups as a great genius. For in his day Modigliani was the butt of ribaldry...
Other critics explain the vogue of Modigliani as that of an essentially minor painter who led a pathetic life in a romantic quarter of Paris, died young under unusual circumstances, painted startlingly and individually if not well, was handsome...
Between the halves Coach Alonzo Stagg said something to his son, Quarterback Paul Stagg. When the Chicago team came out for the third period it moved smoothly down the field for one touchdown, then raced widely for another. Top-heavy Tigers obeyed as well as they could Coach Roper's furious "Get-the-hell-in-there-and-fight!" Chicago 15, Princeton...
...Portland, Me., Willie L. Sanborn has for 17 years gone to a well on the grounds of Pennell Institute to obtain water for his boarders. Recently he was convicted of the larceny of ten quarts of water valued at one dollar. Sentence was suspended; Mr. Sanborn was put on two years' probation...