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Sept. 10, 1921: The debut issue of a Swiss newsmagazine, L’Illustré, with a "descendant of William Tell" on the cover.
Sept. 5, 1921: "Bobbed hair hats" are being offered in the shops of New York, so that women sporting the hairstyle can show off their short locks to full advantage. The even more streamlined cloche hat will arrive mid-decade. (St. Louis Star)
Sept. 2, 1921: Anthony Lucas, Croatian-born engineer who discovered oil with his Spindleton well in 1901 and set off the Texas black gold boom, dies at 66. His friend President Harding pays respects. (Washington Star)
Aug. 3, 1921: The avant-garde Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov is arrested in Petrograd and accused of being part of a nonexistent military plot against the Communist regime. The influential writer, the ex-husband of fellow poet Anna Akhmatova, will be executed later this month. 1/2
July 30, 1921: Seeking to avoid the attention of police in Shanghai, delegates to the first Congress of the newly formed Chinese Communist Party decamp to a houseboat in nearby Xiajang. The boat is commemorated in artwork glorifying the party in the 1970s.
July 30, 1921: The dangerous job of explosives disposal continues on the old Western Front of France and Belgium. Rows of shells are lined up in ditches, pointed at piles of wood, before being burned, and 9-foot-high German projectiles are broken down. 1/2
July 24, 1921: Publication of the anonymous book "The Mirrors of Washington" stirs a guessing game all over the capital to find out who wrote the gossipy word portraits of influential politicians, including Presidents Wilson and Harding (caricature from the book). 1/2
July 16, 1921: Police in Berlin are patrolling the Tegel forest to round up and cover up nudists as they openly loll about. The description of them as a "sect" is likely journalistic exaggeration. The naturist movement has a long, if controversial, history in Germany.
July 8, 1921: Ziegfeld Follies star Peggy Hopkins Joyce wins $1,350 a month in alimony, plus court costs of $40,000, in her divorce from wealthy Chicago lumber dealer James Stanley Joyce. This is the third of four marriages for the much-written-about actress. (Chicago Tribune)
July 7, 1921: Roman nobleman Filippo Andrea VI Doria Pamphilj marries a Scottish nurse, Gesine Mary Dykes, who nurtured him back to health after a bout with tuberculosis had paralyzed his spine. His family bitterly oppose the match and shun the wedding in London. 1/2
June 26, 1921: A grim story emerges from the oil boomtown of El Dorado, Ark. A jobless father living in a tent city sends his children to forage for mushrooms for dinner, but they gather toadstools. The meal kills the two brothers, ages 9 and 7, and a woman neighbor who joins in.
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📸 Morning Clouds by Archibald Knox, 1921: https://t.co/pL3DYEQxIt 🇮🇲 🎉
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In my latest post, I rank the best and worst magazine advertisements of January 1921: https://t.co/RZyBH2phJV
#BornOnThisDay in 1921: the incredibly talented artist & designer S. Neil Fujita. Album covers, ads, magazine covers, graphic design for book covers (The Godfather & In Cold Blood), as well as fine art paintings - Fujita was a master of many. #wardsmorguefile
AFYA1921: Think of your work as a chord, a rhythm as well as a thread, a song as well as a vibration, a knot as well as a rope, a touch as well as a vision.
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7 décembre 1878: naissance de Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) écrivaine japonaise, poétesse, pionnière féministe, pacifiste, réformatrice de l'ordre social.
1921: fonde le Bunka Gakuin, institut culturel à Surugadai avec des associés. 1re école mixte du Japon. Veut égalité ds éducation.
Map | 1921: Early Administrative Divisions in the #Soviet #Caucasus.
Source: 'Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus' by Arthur Tsutsiev. New Haven: “Yale University Press”, 2014. https://t.co/YbWi98O1TP
#RembrandtCurated Rembrandt, Woman and Child Descending a Staircase, c. 1625-1636 & Picasso, Maternity, 1921: https://t.co/7BL6n8XqX8
Wonderful #archive #photograph of the women of the #CumannNaMbann #irish volunteer force in #Carlow in 1921: