Word: studiousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast country in which he worked and where she, three quarters of a century later, annually repairs for enlargement of the spirit. Into his pious story she can bring a wealth of unchurchly anecdotes because, trekking around his desert diocese on his cream-colored mule, Bishop Latour was respectfully studious of its folklore. He was austere towards priests like Padre Martinez, the bison-shouldered Mexican at Taos, brazen in fleshliness. But when Jacinto, his Indian guide, led him through a blizzard to shelter in a secret, tribal, mountain cave, the Bishop honored the inscrutable...
...poet, Alfred Noyes is credited with much studious innovation in metre and verse forms. But the fancies and profundities of his mighty lines are about as subtle and original as Kipling gone Tennysonian with an occasional dash of brine from John Masefield and a few zephyrs from Swinburne...
...star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita de Alvarez came out onto the court in .a brilliant red sweater and turban, took off the sweater, changed the scarlet turban to one of bottle green. If she won the match the world...
Pilot Van Orman, 33, lean, studious, is such a wise meteorologist that his fellow employes at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. consult him upon whether or not to go fishing. He won the Bennett Trophy last year, is perhaps the ablest of U. S. balloonists...
...Veteran John H. Mayes was taught photo-engraving at the Veterans' Bureau. Studious, quick-learning, he soon was able to start a photo-engraving business of his own, in Murphysboro, 111. On pieces of specially prepared paper, seven and one-eighth inches long, three and one-eighth inches wide, he made minutely detailed engravings, including the arresting words: "This certificate is a legal tender in the amount thereof in payment of all debts and dues public and private. Acts of March 14, 1900, as amended...