Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scorns the boutonniere as a relic of the Corsican upstart Napoleon. Shortly after the War he married Delfina Edwards-Bello, beautiful daughter of a wealthy Argentine. Their town house in Paris was the former studio of the late great Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, built on the site of an ancient convent, which Artist Boutet de Monvel has redecorated in a style which Artist Ingres would have liked to afford. Artist Boutet de Monvel lives amid beautiful women. Rich ones sit to him for their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper...
...Translator. Archeologist by trade and inclination, Lawrence (he has not yet written a book signed "Shaw") originally intended to be only an archeological author. One of the books which he has never found time to write was to prove that the dating of ancient pottery in England is all wrong. Though a brilliant, omnivorous student with an enormous and accurate memory, though he won Oxford's highest scholastic honor (a fellowship at All Souls), scholars would not call him a scholar. He wrote two-thirds of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his history of the Arab revolt, at odd moments during...
...search all Aeschylus and Sophocles without finding a better example of hubris than Mr. Hoover's behavior in 1928. [His] . . . was not the wanton violence of the ancient tragic heroes but a smug arrogance. . . . His campaign promises ran to that excess which above all things offended the Greek temperament, which seemed above all things to invite the correcting interposition of Nemesis. . . . Compare him. for example, with Oedipus. Oedipus, like Hoover, thought very well of himself. We first see him when his country is suffering from a severe and unexpected depression. . . . He has appointed Kreon as a fact-finding commission. Kreon...
...away. Betty Compton, his friend, also sailed, with her mother. Aboard were newshawks, crossing to return on the new Italian liner Conte di Savoia. Miss Compton & mother visited the Walker suite. The Walker valet. Greenhouse, deckwalked the Compton dog. Mr. Walker finally emerged from his cabin, gave newshawks an ancient wisecrack about his whiskers growing so long he must shave or buy a fiddle, and denied that he was about to return a visit to the Maharajah of Mysore...
Amelia Earhart Putnam, Ladies' Night guest of honor at Manhattan's Explorers Club, prepared to present a blue Persian kitten as club mascot. William J. Morden, Asiatic big-game hunter and explorer, announced that the aviatrix. in accordance with ancient Inca custom, would anoint the cat's feet with oil to prevent its straying from home. Boomed a voice in the rear: ''Bill's wife says to put some oil on his feet...