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...existence over a month, but only last week did press & public learn of New York's Academy of Arts. Immediately the Academy's bulletin board burgeoned like jonquils in an Alpine meadow with yellow telegrams of congratulation from Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot. Critic George Jean Nathan, Photographer Arnold Genthe, dozens of others. Starting with an idea and an empty room six weeks ago the Academy now boasts nearly 50 pupils, most of them bartering their services as typists, scrubwomen, carpenters or models for lessons in painting, drawing, sculpture, toe dancing, tango, violin, piano, singing...
Died. Herbert Nathan Straus, 51, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. and president of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co. (department stores), ardent Republican, brother of Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...uncle, Percy Selden Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy, became president; Ralph's uncle. Jack's father and Percy's brother, Jesse Isidor Straus, resigned as president to become U. S. Ambassador to France. Last week Percy's and Jesse's brother, Herbert Nathan Straus, 51, died of heart trouble (see p. 36) two days after resigning as treasurer...
Every lexicon but youth's is bright enough to include such words as "fail," but not every dictionary is first-rate. The appearance of a first-rate dictionary is a newsworthy event in literary history. Since Nathan Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum (1721), these events can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.* Though every dictionary is more of a Who's Who of words than a supreme court of language, it is the ambition of every lexicographer to be the final arbiter. Generally acknowledged by scholars to be the nearest approach so far to supreme...
...Founders of the original Oxford Movement (Rome-ward), which many a higher-churchman than Dr. Macartney furiously resents confusing -especially since its centenary is to be celebrated next summer-with Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's stylish evangelistics...