Athena Tacha Spear's book, Brâncuși's Birds, ( CAA monographs XXI, NYU Press, New York, 1969 ), first sorted out the 36 versions and their development, from the early Măiastra, to the Golden Bird of the late teens, to the Bird in Space, which emerged in the early ' 20s and which Brâncuși perfected throughout his life.

At the same time, the system's commercial regimentation and focus on glamorous escapism discouraged daring and ambition beyond a certain degree, a prime example being the brief but still legendary directing career of the iconoclastic Erich von Stroheim in the late teens and the ‘ 20s.

The late ' 20s were full of static, stagey talkies as artists in front of and behind the camera struggled with the stringent limitations of the early sound equipment and their own uncertainty as to how to utilize the new medium.

In the late 2000s, reports indicated that the rate of drunk driving by under 20s in Auckland had risen 77 % in three years, with similar increases in the rest of the country.

These often noisy, hot, and crowded establishments were largely frequented by men and women in their late teenage years and 20s.

Most important, rather than being married off at the age of 12 or 13, Spartan law forbade the marriage of a girl until she was in her late teens or early 20s.

When he was in his late teens and 20s, Milton would travel with his father on his sales trips.

In the late ' 20s, Leonard and Holt aggressively marketed Upper Emerald Lake to San Franciscans.

In Algren's book, Frankie is a blond-haired man in his late 20s, and as a poor veteran he often wears a torn Army jacket and brogans.

In the early Shōwa period in the late ' 20s, record companies produced ryūkōka in place of street performers ( enka-shi ).

It is unknown whether that usage was abandoned in the late 20s of the 19th century or earlier, but in present days a Georgian platoon still called " Ozeuili " has a similar size to that of other armies.

In keeping with the " Floating timeline " spirit of other long-running comic strip and literary characters, Modesty and Willie generally do not age over the decades, with Modesty always being depicted as being in her late 20s, Willie eight years older.

The film is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys taking a road trip with a woman in her late 20s ; it stars Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal and Spanish actress Maribel Verdú in the leading roles.

After the gains made by the homosexual rights movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the vibrant homosexual subcultures of the 20s and 30s became silent as war engulfed Europe.

In his late teens-early 20s, Joel fell seriously ill with skin and glandular tuberculosis, and underwent extensive treatment in Stockholm.

The rules were indeed changed, but it was due to an effort by the Speedway to get more car manufacturers involved in the race by discouraging the entry of specialized racing machines which dominated the 500 during the mid-to late -' 20s.

Women who became mothers in their teens — freed from child-raising duties by their late 20s and early 30s to pursue employment while poorer women who waited to become moms were still stuck at home watching their young children — wound up paying more in taxes than they had collected in welfare.

In contrast to the historical Xuanzang, a wise and learned scholar ( he was in his late 20s when he left for India ), the fictional Xuanzang is presented as a young monk who is extremely naive, showing idealistic compassion without wisdom.

The Bulletproof Bomb ( occasionally referred to as the " Roaring 20s ") is a 1920s limousine sedan, driven by a group of seven pint-sized gangsters all of whom sit in the front seat: leader Clyde ( voiced by late Paul Winchell ), Ring-A-Ding ( voiced by late Don Messick ), and five others.

As Nogi was 28 years old, it was a very late marriage for that time, considering that the average age to marry was in the early 20s.

Patients with keratoconus typically present initially with mild astigmatism and myopia, commonly at the onset of puberty, and are diagnosed by the late teenage years or early 20s.

The team was composed of top amateur and former professional players who were mostly in their late 20s or early 30s.

This eventually culminated in Evagrius ’ s pursuit of legal studies, which upon completion, earned him the prestigious title of “ Scholasticus ” when he was in his late 20s.

In his late 20s, Owen started a textile business that later expanded to both Toronto and New York.

Faery Wicca is not related to the late Victor Anderson's Feri Tradition of witchcraft, which is sometimes also spelled Faery or Fairy, nor is it directly related to the gay men's group, the Radical Faeries.

After the Master and Variety labels collapsed in late 1937, Mills placed Ellington back on Brunswick and those small group units on Vocalion through 1940, when Ellington signed back to Victor ( and the small groups were placed on Bluebird ).

A fragment of a letter from Irenæus to Pope Victor I during the Easter controversy in the late 2nd century, also preserved by Eusebius, testifies that Telesphorus was one of the Roman bishops who always celebrated Easter on Sunday, rather than on other days of the week according to the calculation of the Jewish Passover.

In late 1891, Edward's eldest son, Albert Victor, was engaged to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.

Although he is known to have been working in pastel as late as the end of 1907, and is believed to have continued making sculpture as late as 1910, he apparently ceased working in 1912, when the impending demolition of his longtime residence on the rue Victor Massé forced him to move to quarters on the boulevard de Clichy.

However, Victor Amadeus in his late year was dominated by shyness and sadness, probably under the effect of some mental illness.

At the same time, though, the crown became so closely identified with Fascism that by the time Victor Emanuel was able to shake himself loose from it, it was too late to save the monarchy.

Foreigners noted how even as late as the 1940s newsreel images of King Victor Emanuel and Queen Elena, born Princess Elena of Montenegro, evoked applause, sometimes cheering, when played in cinemas, in contrast to the hostile silence shown toward images of Fascist leaders.

Examples with photo-flash systems included the UK V-bomber simulators for the Valiant, Vulcan and Victor, produced by the Redifon company at Aylesbury and Crawley in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Mural depicting downtown Montgomery in the late 1800s, painted by Victor Garcia

It was under Serge Koussevitsky that the orchestra made its first electrical recordings, also for Victor, in the late 1920s.

A late incarnation of Sitting Duck also included another future Camper Van Beethoven member, bassist Victor Krummenacher, whose joining allowed Lowery to switch to rhythm guitar.

She is occasionally referred to as Delores Williams because of an early marriage to Eugene Williams ; in the late 1940s he was identified in RCA Victor record company files as " D. L.

Following his grandmother Queen Victoria's wishes, he was named Albert Victor, after herself and her late husband Albert, but was known informally as " Eddy ".

Also in late 1931, RCA Victor developed and released the first 33⅓-rpm records to the public ( known as " Program Transcriptions ").

In late 1968, RCA modernized its image with a new futuristic-looking logo ( the letters RCA in block modernized form ), replacing the old lightning bolt logo, and the virtual retirement of both the Victor and Nipper trademarks.

By the mid to late 1920s, Victor had signed Jelly Roll Morton, Bennie Moten, Duke Ellington and other black bands and were becoming very competitive with Columbia and Brunswick, even starting their own V-38000 " Hot Dance " series that was marketed to all Victor dealers.

Chinese American actor Victor Sen Yung played the Cartwrights ' happy-go-lucky cook, whose blood pressure rose when the family came late for dinner.

After various mergers, divisions, lawsuits, and injunctions, this company was to give rise to the Victor Talking Machine Company in the United States in late 1900.

After returning briefly to New Orleans, where he worked with the bands of Fate Marable and Fats Pichon, he was offered a recording contract with Victor Records and returned to New York City, where he also joined the Luis Russell band, which was later fronted by Louis Armstrong in the late 1930s.

By the late 1960s, the company was achieving five-figure sales on its most popular models, including the entry-level Viva and larger Victor.

The Nine Years ' War ( 1688 – 97 ) – often called the War of the Grand Alliance, the War of the Palatine Succession, or the War of the League of Augsburg – was a major war of the late 17th century fought between King Louis XIV of France, and a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch Stadtholder-King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and the major and minor princes of the Holy Roman Empire.

He was close with his younger brother Mario ' Vinnie ' Costello, a noted professional boxer super featherweight boxer from 1981-1990 with a pro record of 20-2-2 but who never fought for a title, who trained with his brother under the late Victor Vallee, who also trained Gerry Cooney.