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From: American Decades
Date: 20010101
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THE 1920s: THE ARTS: DEATHS
Brooks Adams, 78, historian ( The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma ), 13 February 1927.
James Lane Allen, 75, local-color novelist ( A Kentucky Cardinal), 18 February 1925.
John Kendrick Bangs, magazine editor and humorist ( A Houseboat on the Styx ), 21 January 1922.
Nora Bayes, 47, singer ("Shine on Harvest Moon"), 19 March 1928.
Henry A. Beers, 79, literary critic, 7 September 1926.
George Bellows, 42, painter, 8 January 1925.
William Crary Brownell, 76, literary critic and editor, 22 July 1928.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 74, author ( ...
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