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Word: artfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harkness, through whose generosity it is possible for the Harvard House Plan to become a reality, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, and was graduated from Yale in 1897. Besides being a director of many railroads, he is trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Presbyterian Hospital, the New York Publishing Library, and the Union Theological Seminary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINANCES HOUSE PLAN | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...Harkness has been a benefactor of many institutions: he has given much to Yale; his donation of $1,000,000 four years ago established the school of Dramatic Art which called Professor George Pierce Baker '87 from Harvard to Yale to assume its leadership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINANCES HOUSE PLAN | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...Close of first loan exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Oldsters were amused last week at a Manhattan auction of Currier & Ives prints, which for 70 years have hung mostly unobserved in the parlors and kitchens of U. S. homesteads. Collectors and dealers lounging in the carpeted grand auction Hall of the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, concealed their excitement, made their bids. A Tight Fix, showing a bear at bay, brought $1,600. It took $1,450 to buy Home to Thanksgiving. A series of six prints revealing The Life oj a Fireman sold at its record price-$760 Youngsters, wondering at the homely titles and big price, wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Currier & Ives | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...years ago collectors of early American glass, walking sticks, coffee strainers and teething rings fell upon the Currier & Ives prints. They began to boost their value as records of an artless age, some even insisting upon their intrinsic value as works of art. Prices mounted until now a "good" Currier & Ives print is worth about as much as a Chevrolet and rare ones can be sold to lift mortgages from old farmhouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Currier & Ives | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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