Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...paintings, all substantial additions to the Fogg's collection, is Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Old Man." This valuable portrait was formerly in the collection of the Duke of Oldenburg. Hanging on the same wall is a "Portrait of a Preacher of Holland" by Franz Hals, a striking contrast to the Rembrandt in its breadth. Both pictures add examples of the Dutch School which up until this time have not been represented in the Fogg Museum collection except by occa- Family" by Murillo, as well as one of the many versions of El Greco's subject, "Christ Driving the Money...
...humor. "Imagine at nearly three that mind of his ! I imagine it, you know, as a little house, a little honeycomb, made up of pearly white cells - glistening, dewy, lustrous, semitransparent, pearly pearly white cells: untrodden, untouched, and pure, oh pure beyond all conception of purity. Imagine by contrast with it the honeycomb house of a long-used mind, the mind of one past middle-age, and you will realize how pure and white and glistening and untouched it is. Imagine the trodden, trampled, often miry footpaths, (no, thought-paths) of a long-used mind, pitted with grievances, scarred with...
...smug letter of Russell J. Marden (TIME, Nov. 10, heading "Inspiration & Contrast") gives me a pain in the neck. He compares the meeting of 60 veterans of one division with an American Legion convention of about twice 60,000, to the disparagement of the latter...
When ballots were counted only eight Heimwehr Deputies were found to have been seated. The Christian Socialist (Catholic) Party with which the Heimwehr is associated won 66 seats, seven less than at the last election. In contrast to this meagre Fascist showing, the old guard Socialist Party of Austria, the Social Democrats, won 72 seats, one more than they held in the last Parliament. Finally the party groups aligned under grand old Austrian State Police Chief Johann Schober, whom the Catholic-Heimwehr forces ousted as Prime Minister six weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 6) won 19 seats, the chamber totaling...
...cash value of $281,000, three automobiles worth a total of $4.000. Partner Norris Bates Henrotin listed personal assets of $151,190, including three automobiles totaling $600. Among the firm's creditors is its investment trust, Sisto Financial Corp. But the amount owed is only $34,860, a striking contrast to the amount Prince & Whitely owed its investment trust (TIME...