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Loos had become a devoted admirer of H. L. Mencken and when he was in New York, she would take a break from her " Tuesday Widows ", and join his circle which included Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Hergesheimer, essayist Ernest Boyd, and theater critic George Jean Nathan.
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Loos had famously declared, in the tongue-in-cheek humor of the day, that " ornament is a crime ".
Altenberg was a contemporary of Karl Kraus, Gustav Mahler, Arthur Schnitzler, Gustav Klimt, and Adolf Loos, with whom he had a very close relationship.
Loos stayed in America for three years, where he had an uncle living in Philadelphia.
The essay was written when Art Nouveau, which Loos had excoriated even at its height in 1900, was about to show a new way of modern art.
The dissident Bavarian clergy invited Bishop Loos of the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands, which for more than 150 years had existed independent of the Papacy, to administer the sacrament of Confirmation in Bavaria.
French ’ s reputation had recovered ( by this time, writes Holmes, “ the losses of Loos looked almost nostalgically trivial ”) and he had come to be regarded as one of the government ’ s leading advisers.
During the First World War French had an affair with Mrs Winifred Bennett, the wife of a British diplomat and former mistress of one of his own officers killed at Loos.
Loos had two siblings: Gladys, and Clifford ( Harry Clifford ), physician and co-founder of the Ross-Loos Medical Group.
Loos had known she wanted to be a writer since she was six, and she also wanted to free herself of the shackles of stock performance.
By 1912, Loos had sold scripts to both the Biograph and Lubin studios.
Her mother had objected to Loos ' working in Hollywood.
They had an instant rapport and Loos would remain a Vanity Fair contributor for several decades.
The new assistant director had eyes for Loos, who had filed for divorce from her estranged first husband.
Leaving Loos and her new assistant John Ashmore Creeland, to visit many of the Paris-based writers Loos had met in America, as well as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and Elisabeth Marbury and Elsie De Wolfe.
Emerson had convinced a devastated Loos that he needed to take a break from his marriage once a week.
The Emersons had traveled to Hollywood with Loos ' new friend photographer Cecil Beaton.
Since Emerson had his own entertainment, Loos was often in the company of Beaton or Mizner.
Loos was not unhappy with this, and within a few months had produced a stage adaptation of But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes and a comedy Cherries are Ripe.
Mizner, who had abused his body through drink and drugs, wasted away until passing April 3, 1932, a date Loos would continue to mark.
At MGM Loos happily turned out scripts ; however, she frequently had to use Emerson as a conduit to communicate with directors and other executives who balked at dealing with a woman on equal footing.
Loos was a frequent attendee at George Cukor's Sunday Brunches, which was the closest Hollywood had to a literary salon.
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In his essays, Loos used provocative catchphrases and has become noted for one particular essay / manifesto entitled Ornament and Crime, spoken first in 1910.
In 1925, on the train to Hollywood for another Talmadge picture, Loos began to write a sketch of Mencken and his vacant lady friends that would later become Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Loos would become a virtual New York institution, an assiduous partygoer and diner-out, conspicuous at fashion shows, theatrical and movie events, balls and galas.
In 1908 the Austrian architect Adolf Loos famously proclaimed that architectural ornament was criminal, and his essay on that topic would become foundational to Modernism and eventually trigger the careers of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Mies van der Rohe and Gerrit Rietveld.
Frank Chance and Joe Cantillon then invited Waddell to join a barnstorming team that travelled to California, where he was convinced to stay and joined the Los Angeles Loo Loos in a league that a year later would become the Pacific Coast League.
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A seriously ill but still devoted Loos followed him, always being left one hotel behind.
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And in Los Angeles, Dr. Donald Ross and Dr. H. Clifford Loos founded the Ross-Loos Clinic to care for City of Los Angeles public utilities workers.
Ross-Loos was established in 1929 by two physicians, Donald E. Ross and H. Clifford Loos, older brother of writer Anita Loos.
* M. Guiérrez-Denhoff and H. Loos, Eds. Felix Draeseke: Chronik seines Lebens.
* S. Döhring, H. John, and H. Loos, Eds.
In The Miracles of Jesus, H. Van der Loos discusses two main categories of miracles by Jesus: those that affected people, e. g., the Blind Man of Bethsaida and are called " healings ", and those that " controlled nature ", e. g., Walking on Water.
The structure and separation of miracles mostly follows Robert Maguire's " The miracles of Christ ", John Clowes ' " The miracles of Jesus Christ ", and H. Van der Loos ' " The Miracles of Jesus " listed in the references section.
* Österle, H., Becker, J., Frank, U., Hess, T., Karagiannis, D., Krcmar, H., Loos, P., Mertens, P., Oberweis, A., Sinz, E. J., Memorandum on design-oriented information systems research, in: European Journal of Information Systems, 20, Nr.
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Abandoned by his supporters and enemies alike, Alexios V was captured near Mosynopolis by the advancing Latins under Thierry de Loos in November 1204.
His circle included the musicians Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker, the painter Gustav Klimt, the writer and satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos, and the poet Peter Altenberg.
* 1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
Occasionally Scottish troops made up large proportions of the active combatants, and suffered corresponding loses, as at the Battle of Loos, where there were three full Scots divisions and other Scottish units.
He then returned to 2nd Battalion as a company officer and, in January 1916, received the Military Cross for his bravery at Loos.
The design theories of Adolf Loos found resonance with Mies, particularly the ideas of eradication of the superficial and unnecessary, replacing elaborate applied ornament with the straightforward display of materials and forms.
* 1915 – The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
* September 25 – October 14 – WWI: Battle of Loos: British forces take the French town of Loos but with substantial casualties and are unable to press their advantage.
* April 26 – Anita Loos, American writer ( d. 1981 )
* August 18 – Anita Loos, American screenwriter ( b. 1888 )
Goodbye to All That provides a detailed description of trench warfare, including the tragic incompetence of the Battle of Loos and the bitter fighting in the first phase of the Somme Offensive.
In 1951, it was adapted for the stage by Anita Loos.
The area was considered by the British to be drier than Loos, Givenchy and Plugstreet Wood further south.
His earliest works of the 1960s were mostly theoretical and displayed a simultaneous influence of 1920s Italian modernism ( see Giuseppe Terragni ), classicist influences of Viennese architect Adolf Loos, and the reflections of the painter Giorgio De Chirico.
Her elder brother, Fergus, an officer in the Black Watch Regiment, was killed in action at the Battle of Loos in 1915.
Though his burial place was recorded, it was subsequently lost and he was listed on the Loos Memorial.
Joh is angered that he learned of the explosion from Freder rather than his assistant Josaphat ( Theodor Loos ), and fires Josaphat as a result.
* Theodor Loos as Josaphat, Joh's assistant.
In September 1915 the Entente allies launched another offensive, with the French attacking at Champagne and the British at Loos.
On 25 September, the British began their assault at Loos, which was meant to supplement the larger Champagne attack.
* Loos – " Yes.
Born in 1870 in Brünn ( Brno ) in the Moravia region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an ethnically German family, Loos was nine when his father, a stonemason, died.
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