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...carve him, too. But he's got stays inside, so I guess the damage wont show none. We aint half begun, though. There's a five-ton statute just come from London out in front now. Its too heavy for the elevator, and pretty near too big for the doors. If you ask me they should have stood this heavy stuff where they wanted it, and then built up around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hands Off" Sign Belongs on Venus de Milo, Declares Mr. Hendricks Describes Discobolus as Waiter Heaving Dishes | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

...give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hands Off" Sign Belongs on Venus de Milo, Declares Mr. Hendricks Describes Discobolus as Waiter Heaving Dishes | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

...name, as 100,000 readers of Author Will Durant's Story of Philosophy might now guess, was Baruch de Espinosa-Spinoza, for short. "With the judgment of the angels and the sentence of the saints" he was anathematized, execrated, cursed, cast out and cut off by the exiled people of Israel. His studies, once the pride of the synagogue, had led him to a mechanistic philosophy of life. He was not the first original thinker Jewry had disowned. Spinoza secluded himself and set up as an optometrist, a grinder of fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sub Specie Aeternitatis | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Love's Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody's guess will do. There is a shred about "Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...expect to have the clay and cinders down pretty soon, to pave it; although I understand the students around here are going to have it paved with gold. I guess they could all right!" This last sally pleased the foreman immensely and he turned the pulpit over to Dennis Enright, veteran grounds keeper, who stood by ready to reinforce the dialogue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreman's Next Job Will Not be Building Baseball Cages--Wants a Hard Job--"Nothing to This," He Declares Scornfully | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

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