Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michael and Mary. A. A. Milne is an inveterate romancer and everything he writes he invests with storybook sweetnesses which delight some people, make others feel bilious. The intrusion of severe ethical concerns into Mr. Milne's pink and downy world would be as incongruous as the speculations of Kant in the mouth of a Fauntleroy. Yet that is what occurs in his newest play...
...says, of something to interest him. Paintings did it. His first enthusiasm was Honore Daumier (1808-79) French caricaturist and painter; afterward there were others: the French Impressionists, French and American moderns. But his first interest never waned; today Mr. Phillips has the best Daumier collection in the world. In 1918 he had enough pictures to open the Phillips Memorial Gallery in his home on 21st Street, Washington. Since then the collection has grown so large that paintings are crowding the family out. Another house is now being built where the family will live, but when they move they will...
This flight perhaps made Costes flyer-of-the-year. Three months ago he set another world-record, for airplane distance, with Maurice Bellonte from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, an airline of 4,910 miles made in the same ship with a more powerful motor (TIME...
Though Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (1706), he settled in Philadelphia, often visited Manhattan, spent some years in England, traveled on the Continent, reached the peak of his career in France. It is not inappropriate that this comprehensive and readable biography of the first U. S. world-citizen has been written by a Frenchman...
...Philadelphia. There he worked in the printing shop of one Keimer. He made many friends, among them Governor William Keith of Pennsylvania. At Keith's advice he went to London to finish his typographical education. In London "already there were three daily newspapers, the leading ones of the world, ten tri-weeklies, and five weeklies...