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...only work that shows the influence of the modern school is that of Richard Ricci, whose Great Horned Owl, a bronze, may be considered a fine example of the modernistic trend in art. Cyrus Dalls, perhaps the best known of the exhibitors, has three Indian subjects on display, all in bronze. Anna Ladd, who had some of her works criticised as "Indecent" by Boston critics, has the largest exhibit. Her "Three Saintly Queens" are noteworthy, and in the opinion of Ralph Adams Cram are the best works produced in Boston for the last few years. Other of her bronzes...
...once proceeded to adopt children. The adoptions were made in the joint name of Drug Inc.. but were really of two kinds: 1) The groom's adoptions consisting of several drug store chains: B. & R. Drug Stores (1928), May Drug Stores (1929), Wolff Wilson Drug Co. (1929), Owl Drug...
Soong. Speaking clipped Harvard English, owl-eyed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong proposed to raise and stabilize silver prices, declared that if this were done China and India could buy untold quantities of the World's products and ended with a bristling declaration: "China does not subscribe to any [Japanese] 'Monroe Doctrine' for the Far East." Shanghai cables reported that Dr. Soong obtained last week a British loan of ?20,000,000 but in London this was not confirmed...
When Alexander MeikleJohn's Experimental College was being tried at the University of Wisconsin, an Athenian owl was its symbol, a device for experimentees to wear on their sweaters. Year ago the College was disbanded, and because of lack of funds no new version of it has been instituted. Like the Athenian owl, Dr. Meiklejohn folded his wings, looked wise. Last week he found a new roost to fly to. In San Francisco next September he will head a new "Adult Center for Social Studies." No entrance requirements will be set, no credits will be given. Dr. Meiklejohn will...
...became apparent that they would not be idle. Japanese patrols spread through the native city, taking over Chinese police posts, searching houses for Chinese snipers. Before breakfast Col. Ibara, commander of the legation guard, led a squad into the house of China's best-known living philosopher, owl-eyed Hu Shih, cross-questioned him for over an hour...