Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Baron Moynihan of Leeds, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, had a look at Sculptor Jacob Epstein's Genesis, grotesque figure of primitive pregnancy. Wrote he to his newspaper: "I regret to say that, in my opinion, Epstein is almost certainly guilty of an error in diagnosis. The lady, I think, is not pregnant. . . . The abdominal tumor in position and in salience is not that of pregnancy. . . . The mammary condition is that of an adipose virgin and not of a primiparous woman whose delivery is drawing near. . . . On the available evidence ... I believe that...
...Bishop William Thomas Manning's rich Cathedral of St. John the Divine, long abuilding in Manhattan, Banker William Woodward, whose racehorses (Gallant Fox [retired], Sir Ashley, Sir Andrew, et al.) have won $89.543 in purses this year, gave $80,000 for a rose window 40 ft.in diameter, in memory of his parents and his uncle James T. Woodward (from whom he inherited his estate at Bel Air, Md., his large holdings in Central Hanover Bank & Trust...
...entered its last week in Pittsburgh. At the same time from the office of Director Homer Saint-Gaudens came gloomy news for prize-hunting painters. The Carnegie International annually distributes $5,600 in prizes. It is largely subsidized by funds left in trust from the estate of the late Andrew Carnegie, and the tide is very far out on the shores of oil and steel stocks. Director Saint-Gaudens had to announce that in 1932 there will be no Carnegie International Exhibition. God and economics willing, the show will resume...
...General William McDaniel Rowan, brother of Lieut. Andrew S. Rowan who carried the Message to Garcia, is Deputy Prohibition Administrator of Nebraska. Last week his area was under Investigation by Washington because of a liquor ring said to be operating successfully in Omaha. Four men have been taken for "rides" in the last six months, five murders have been attempted. General Rowan denied a liquor ring exists...
Present were three of President Garfield's children: Harry Augustus, president of Williams College; Abram, Cleveland architect; Mrs. Joseph Stanley-Brown. A Grand Old Man, always a useful adjunct to celebrations, was also on hand: venerated Lawyer Andrew Squire of Cleveland, student under President Garfield, who told how he alone of his class was too young (11) to serve in the Civil War when Lieut. Colonel Garfield was mustering a regiment. Two Hiram coeds, dressed in hoopskirts, helped plant an evergreen tree on the campus. "Taps" sounded as a flag was run up the flagstaff-the flag which covered...