Word: brother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creaky-Greeky Raymond Duncan (expatriate Paris-dwelling brother of the late Isadora Duncan), who so admires Attic culture that he wears a homespun chlamys (tunic) and sandals in all weather and all company, announced to Paris' Left Bank that he gave not one Hellenic hoot for France's war, said he would carry on as usual his courses in antique cloth-weaving, basketmaking, and rhythmics...
...Technicolor cameras ground away. The first scenes of Gone With the Wind had been shot. A flat representing the Atlanta warehouse district was constructed in front of the old sets. In the light of the dying flames Myron Selznick, Hollywood's No. 1 agent, stepped over to his brother. With him was his British client, wasp-waisted, tilt-browed, hazel-eyed Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), who had slipped into Hollywood allegedly to see Laurence Olivier. Said Myron Selznick to David Selznick: "Dave, I want you to meet Scarlett O'Hara...
Though the Philadelphia Museum of Art welcomed Mrs. Rice's drawing room, it would welcome still more warmly a gift from her brother-in-law, Joseph Early Widener. A leathery, meticulous Philadelphia patrician, Joe Widener inherited his father's great art collection, has made it even greater by ruthless pruning. In Lynnewood Hall, Widener's vast Georgian mansion at Elkins Park, Pa., now hang 105 paintings-all good, some masterpieces...
When Hopson became ill, Associated was controlled by a junta consisting of his old partner J. I. Mange; Hopson's three sisters (Norma Jones, Perle Hopson, Amy Starch) ; his brother-in-law, Commercial Research's famed Dr. Daniel Starch. A few weeks ago Mr. Mange went calling on Jesse Jones to see about arranging an RFC loan. Soon Associated got the idea thai Mr. Jones's price for making the loan was a finger in management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing...
...Given by the Goncourt Academy, founded in memory of Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (1822-1896) and his brother, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (1830-1870), collaborating novelists, historians and authors of the famed Goncourt Journals...