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...solid paragraph of figures]. . . . These figures illustrate our progress. . . . [nine more paragraphs of figures and material items]. . . . These figures, which would be cold and uninteresting in themselves, when we realize that they illustrate the life and development of our country cannot fail to have a deep fascination...
...Dutch costume, buxom, healthy girls in voluminous skirts, aprons, peaked caps. He loved little, angular Dutch gables, the wide Dutch sky over the flatlands. He knew an advanced, much-mooted artist named Rembrandt and often bought his etchings which caught the homely beauties of life in Holland in deep chiaroscuro. Jan Six also collected many contemporary paintings. Holland from his doorstep and on canvas was shining, sunny, softly reflected in the canals...
...first prize was won by Claggett Wilson of Manhattan, 'The second by Mr. Jensen. Artist Wilson, called "Clag" by his cronies, is darkly massive, fastidious, redolent of success. He suggests no garret-dweller, speaks in a deep voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist...
Parson Faunce (the name rhymes with Harvardized "chawnce") is short, dignified and deep voiced. He faintly resembles Cartoonist Bairnsfather's "Old Bill." He has poise, personality, pudginess. He invariably wears wing collars, four-in-hand cravats. Cigars have never yellowed his teeth; spirits have never tainted his breath. He is precise in conduct, a precisionist in speech...
...Tuscany. Synonymous, too, have been Carrara and Fabbricotti. For of all the families who have hacked and hewed in the quarries of Carrara, the family of the Fabbricotti is oldest and greatest. When the two chiefs of the Fabbricotti-Guido Murray and Carlo Andrea-ride on horseback to their deep pits in the hills, they may reflect that their ancestors have ridden in just such a way, to the same pits, for some 500 years. It was in the 15th century that the head of the Fabbricotti line appeared before the Duchess who ruled over Carrara.' Humbly, he besought...