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LIGHTWOOD - Brainard Cheney -Houghton Mifflin...
...mind of an ambitious and unscrupulous small town lawyer. By the time it is over Micajah Corn has lost nearly everything a human being can lose and stay alive; the company, inevitably, has got what it was after; the lawyer's veering ambitions are disposed of, and Mr. Cheney has done a number of things which even better equipped novelists might envy...
...action in Europe. Excerpt: "Russia, knowing that Japan would be compelled to consider an American interruption of her communications with the Asiatic mainland, can now envisage a connection with [Britain & France] which she was indisposed to make so long as Siberia was open to attack." >President Roy A. Cheney of the Underwear Institute announced in Philadelphia: "The underwear industry is prepared and in line in case of war. Several million shirts and drawers would be needed. . . . We will have the same prosperity...
...invention behind him at 40. He had carried out a great adventure in building. But though Wright had freed domestic architecture he did not feel himself free. Making what provision he could for his wife and six children, he went to Italy with a woman named Mamah Borthwick Cheney. They were never married. Wright thus broke with personal convention as he had long since broken with artistic convention. On their return in 1911, he put all he knew of architecture into the building of Taliesin as a new home for them both. Changes of this kind are ill-fated...
...zanne's works published nearly two years ago by Venturi. For the Barnes Bathers: 1900-05; for the Widener Bathers, 1898-1905. Collector Sam A. Lewisohn, who happened to be in Philadelphia, was saddened by the dispute. "Art is too beautiful to argue about," said he. Critic Sheldon Cheney opined that Les Grandes Baigneuses was not Cézanne's "best" but could not be called "fifth-rate" either. Philadelphia newspapers solemnly baited Dr. Barnes with the discovery that whereas there were 16 nude figures in the Museum's painting, the Barnes Bathers numbered only eight...