Word: butlerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world of English portraiture may be thought of as a triangle with Mayfairish Photographer Cecil Beaton at one corner, the polished Royal portrait painters at the other, and Augustus John at the apex. Like Poet William Butler Yeats, whom he has often drawn and painted, John is a master technician with an extraordinary, romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late...
...sixth the Blue put together two singles and a fielder's choice for a run, and in the ninth loaded the bases with two out. Here Healey ore down and forced Butler to pop to Grondahl for the final out. Thirty-two batters had faced him, five over par for the course...
HARVARD R. I. STATE Shean, 2b cf. Graham Johns, ss 2b, Jaworski Lupien, 1b lf, LaCastro Gannett, cf ss, Fay Grondahl, 3b c, Duranleau Hoye, rf lb, Butler Soltz, lf rf, Albanese Fulton, c 3b, Zachadnyk Healey, p p, Hines...
Since joining the Court last year, Hugo LaFayette Black has been its most spectacular dissenter. In his total of 13 dissents he has entered nine solitary dissents to four for Justice McReynolds, one each for Justices Butler & Reed, none for the rest of his colleagues. Last March, The Nation hailed the liberal tone of Justice Black's dissenting opinions, particularly one in which he contradicted the Court's 50-year-old interpretation of the 14th Amendment as applying to corporations.* Last month, however, a Harper's article by Marquis Childs reviewed Hugo Black's first year...
...three, a never-ending supply of clean white gloves. A clean white glove is the cachet of respectability in the Four Hundred. With a pair of clean white gloves, it's even possible to get past Psychic, the Perfect Butler who guards the threshold of J. P. Morgan on Murray Hill...