Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini, have a care! You've ruined the Woman I love, Democracy; killed my aged mother, the League of Nations; sunk the British fleet and set fire to the Empire-but beware...
When a frightened young woman (Olivia de Havilland) arrives with a fluttery story about a wrecked coach, Garrick accepts her as part of the plot, grandly surrenders his rooms to her. While he feigns concern for her safety and distress during the continued ructions, he decides she is a very bad actress. Later he tells her so, then beats the French at their own game, by impersonating one of their members. When he reveals himself there are mutual apologies and gallant toasts all round; but the girl has fled. In Paris he looks for her backstage, discovers that, sure enough...
Masterpieces at the Carnegie show in abstract or other methods of painting were conspicuously rare. Second prize ($600) was awarded for Woman Near a Table, a semi-nude against a clever perspective, done in sombre blues and browns by Italian Felice Casorati. Neither this nor the third prize ($500) winner, Family Portrait by young Josef Pieper of Düsseldorf, Germany, was distinguished by that finality of excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many...
France. In the winding, pleasant valley of the Loire, every year for twelve years the plow of Farmer Jean Gonon struck a hard object at the same spot. He finally dug it up, found it was a marble statue of a woman, lugged it home with difficulty since it weighed almost 200 Ib. Experts pronounced it a masterpiece of Greek art, a lush Venus probably inspired by the school of Pheidias (450-400 B.C.). The right arm is broken off at the shoulder; the left holds draperies which loop down below the belly. The legs are missing below the knees...
Less colorful than Publisher Shutts, 43-year-old John Knight has made his personality felt through life-long knowledge of editorial practices which click. His father, onetime Representative Charles Landon Knight, left the editorship of the Woman's Home Companion in 1903 to become part-owner of the Akron Beacon-Journal. During vacations from Akron public schools, John Knight served tedious apprenticeships in the mechanical and business departments of his father's paper. Son John was given the managing editorship in 1924, made publisher in 1928. In 1927 John Knight bought the Massillon, Ohio, Independent, is still...