Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macbeth Gallery gave first exhibitions to Homer Dodge Martin, Alexander Wyant, Robert Henri, George Luks, William Glackens, John Sloan, Ernest Lawson, dozens of others. William Macbeth's greatest coup was his sponsorship of his funereal friend, the late great Arthur B. Davies. Sensitive Artist Davies had a studio right over the gallery, lunched with William Macbeth every day, used to bring his pictures down to exhibit before the paint was dry, was always free to borrow all the cash in the till...
Plans were announced to undertake what Sir Ernest Shackleton once described as "the last great adventure in the history of South Polar exploration," the exploration of the 5,000,000 sq. mi. in the Antarctic Continent between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea, three-quarters of which has never been seen by man. Principals will be Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, inactive in Arctic or Antarctic exploration since his friend Roald Amundsen lost his life seeking General Umberto Nobile in May 1928, and Pilot Bernt Balchen (Byrd transatlantic and South Pole nights). The expedition plans to leave New York in September...
...mule is sterile. So skeptical of the few reported cases of mule fertility is Encyclopaedia Britannica that it refuses to consider them authentic. But last week from Natal, South Africa, issued a report that appeared to have the stamp of authority. In a letter to Nature (British weekly), Ernest Warren of the Natal Museum reported the following "indisputable example of fertility in the mule...
...part of Blayds's amanuensis-son-in-law is taken in the current production by Ernest Lawford, who carries off the memorable birthday scene with fine pomposity. Blayds should be witnessed if only to see how good Playwright Whimsy-Wimsy was before he had his attack of milne...
...qualities which will make him a great example as a college president. . . . The highest qualification for a college presidency is that the students should desire to be like the president. I can imagine few people whom it would be more wholesome to be like than him." Said President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Amherst's rival. Dartmouth: "My respect has continued and grown for the scope of his intellectual interest and for the quality of his thinking in regard to political and social problems...