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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...culture. Therein lies what M. Benda terms the Treason of the Intellectuals. That many of these intellectuals have lost their broader out-look in a militant patriotism is undeniable; that this should be regarded as an act of treason is more than doubtful. M. Benda's readers will possibly prefer to regard it merely as an indication of the extraordinary degree to which national consciousness has developed...
...which produced a rumor to the effect that he was backing the show.* Right beside Ringside will open The Big Fight, starring Tex Rickard's onetime breadwinner, Jack Dempsey, et ux.; thus providing theatre-goers with an example of dramatic coincidence and the opportunity to show whether they prefer a good approximation to the real thing...
...elsewhere. Knoedler's Gallery is largely responsible for the change. Since the time when its senior partner began to import the work of foreign celebrities, native workmanship became less socially desirable. U. S. persons, having arrived at the pinnacle of pretension which permits them to order portraits, would prefer to have themselves painted by a portrayer of dukes or princes. Hence U. S. portraitists, able though they may be, are not so avidly patronized that their prices approach those of the most famed Europeans. George Benjamin Luks, Eugene Edward Speicher, Wayman Adams, and Leopold Seyffert probably have...
...late Senator "Fighting Bob" La Follette). Their goal was anti-rakish, antiseptic fun, and they achieved it. The heroine is a mid-western lass who hungers for romance and esthetics. In Venice she tumbles for an insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins...
...said he had favored the All-American (Mohawk Valley) route for a Lakes-to-Atlantic shipway, but would agree to the St. Lawrence River route (which Hoover is said to prefer) if Congress so chose...