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...Brown is slick, suave, smooth, poker-faced. He smiles instead of laughs. As trustee of the Lucas County Children's Home, he is called "Uncle Walt" by its young inmates. Foods and their preparation fascinate him. He has an almost feminine passion for cooking. He refuses to eat a strawberry that has touched water. A Harvard graduate, he is 60, below medium height, dark of hair, slow to wrath...
...embroideries hitherto unknown and unpublished, probably done near Valencia in Spain around 1400, a period from which very few embroideries are in existence today. The large cross-shaped orphrey from the back of the chasuble represents the cruicified Christ; at the foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched in a diaper pattern. The design of the figures is admirably worked...
...another Eastern preparatory school, I read with great interest your article on the unique new plan applied to The Hill School for determining the advisability of college for each boy. The Hill School is to be highly commended for devising a new method to control the present American passion for a liberal arts college degree, regardless of fitness...
...commissioned by the State of Wisconsin, and will shortly be placed in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, Washington, whither each State may send the images of its two most distinguished citizens after they have died.* Than the late, great La Follette, no noble Roman ever had a greater passion for justice or a greater vigor in its pur suit. His outward aspect, the material of sculpture, mirrored the temper of the man. He was compact, robust, wiry, alive with energy. His head was squarely, ruggedly shaped, with abundant hair swooping up in a reckless, leonine pompadour. He dressed with what...
...Wrong. Sin and gin will not help The Nation. Mr. Broun himself has been helped by neither. Tex Guinan has not helped him to courage, or wit, or passion or greatness. A Broadway night club is not a nursery for brave thinking...