Word: sargent
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...Institute solemnly announced that—Chicago students like the streamlined deminudes of U.S. Magazine Artist George Petty. After Esquire's Petty, students coolly chose (in order of preference): Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, George Innes, Claude Monet, Doris Lee, Winslow Homer' Jules Breton, Caravaggio, Renoir, Manet,' John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh. Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich blanched not a whit. Said he: "It was perfectly natural. The students like pretty girls and they like slick technique. I look at Petty myself whenever I get the chance...
...Rogue's Gallery, the funniest story, tells of Miss Sargent's experiences as assistant to a Mr. Sheer, a borrowed-shoestring art dealer...
...book is made up of six stories, four of them long, none of them dull, all as needle-toothed and portentous as so many black cats. Among them they put together the tortuous, semiautobiographical figure of Margaret Sargent, a youngwoman-about-Manhattan, from the callow moment in which she breaks her first marriage to the hour when, twisting on a psychoanalyst's sofa like an unable phoenix in hot ashes, she discovers in her childhood the source of her emptiness...
...Brooks Brothers Shirt does at full length a U.S. type common on the hoof but so new to U.S. letters that the author, unfortunately, can't quite get over her smartness in bringing him back alive. He is the intelligent, morose, lonely U.S. businessman. He and Miss Sargent pick each other up on a transcontinental train and their Scotched-up frictions throw a yellow light on various aspects of U.S. money, snobbism...
Registration will begin for Harvard, Radcliffe, Sargent, and Leslie students in Memorial Hall this afternoon at 2 and continue until 9 o'clock. The hours for the remaining three days will be Tuesday from 9 to 9 o'clock, Wednesday from 2 to 9 o'clock, and Thursday from 9 to 9 o'clock...