The Archive · 1941

IN PARENTHESIS

Expensive Sport "My time," said the magnate, "is worth $100 a minute."

"Well." answered his friend casually. "let's go out this afternoon and play $10,000 or $15,000 worth of golf."

Hogarth's Art A RICH nobleman sought to engage William Hogarth, the great English painter and pictorial satirist, to paint in his staircase the scene of The Passage of the Red Sea. Hogarth was unable to obtain the contract price which went to examine the picture, and was surprised fo find the space painted a solid red.

"What, have here?" he exclaimed in "The.

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