Word: intented
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...third volume, on Renaissance Art, has come from the press, preceded by Ancient and Medieval, and to be followed by Modern. The books are not easy to read, but they repay a little delving. Faure is a brilliant stylist, his word-stream brimming with metaphor and colorful imagery, always intent upon inner meaning, and emotional overtones, so that his writing is obscure to those who expect mere surface description. But the translation is itself an admirable work of letters. He treats of sculpture and architecture with fair attention as well as painting. He has not produced a text...
...Theatre has decided that it is oversexed. Fourteen plays (TIME, Oct. 29) plus various musical revues now current in Manhattan were intent upon the discussion or display of feminine attraction and its results upon a fallible mankind. So intent were six of these that the Society for the Suppression of Vice began to move restlessly in its cocoon. There was danger that it might burst and become a full-fledged moth to eat through the linings of the managers' money bags. But no. The managers, the actors, the playwrights put their hard old heads together. A plan developed...
...ourselves, but only by consulting without producing the promised money, so France could hardly be expected to do anything else, other than break away and act by itself. This does not mean that France is reactionary, and is anxious to acquire the Rhineland; it means only that she is intent upon seeing the treaties fulfilled and then will withdraw satisfied...
...most popular short story writers in America, here accepts and adapts expressionistic technique for the purpose of telling a simple and moving story. The result is by far the best work Miss Hurst has done?amazingly clever, astonishingly vivid in spite of occasional verbal extravagances, admirably sincere in intent...
...entirely new guise, it seems reasonable to believe that the mere circumstance that the schemers have concocted a kind of deception heretofore unheard of in jurisprudence is no reason why a court of equity should be either unwilling or unable to deal with the situation. The plain intent was, of course, to palm off Amador as another Chaplin, or as Chaplin himself, and this very kind of thing has been forbidden repeatedly by the Court of Appeals of New York State. (White Studio, Inc. v. Dreyfoos, 221 N. Y. 46, where the court said: "Unfair competition may result from representations...