Word: coms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that dusty institute contained such promising pupils as Augustus John, Sir John Lavery, William Rothenstein. Billy Orps did not have to wait long for recognition. His humor, the firmness of his line, above all his brilliant use of color attracted inter national attention. Very soon he had more portrait com missions than he could handle. Tycoons besieged his studio. One New York gallery offered him $5,000,000 to come to New York and do a series of 300 portraits. Billy Orps turned it down. He had all the portraits he could possibly do right in London...
...control. The patent was issued in 1914, will expire Nov. 3 next. Seven years ago Esnault-Pelterie filed suit against the U. S. because planes used by Army & Navy had joy-sticks.* Also he sued Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Co. and Chance-Vought Corp. for their commercial planes. The Fairchild com pany settled out of court this year. The Vought case is pending in New York. The claim against the Government lay dormant until recently when Claims Com missioner Hayner H. Gordon reopened the case. Should his claim be upheld. Inventor Esnault-Pelterie was reputedly pre pared to demand...
...Milligan, organist of the (Rocke feller) Riverside Church and of its predecessor, the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Born 42 years ago in Astoria, Ore., he is blond, bespectacled, looks less esthetic than businesslike. He has studied early U. S. music, written the sole biography of Composer Stephen Collins Foster, com posed songs, organ pieces and operettas. Lately he has devoted all his time to organ-playing and managing the N. A. O. and the National Music League which, with Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn as its president, helps young U. S. musicians get ahead. Last month he represented U. S. organists...
...failed to account to Congress for $48,300. Last week the Senate Committee, chairmanned by North Dakota's young, belligerent Nye, met to receive a report from Mr. Manly and hear other witnesses. The Bishop was abroad, visiting Paris and London. He cabled a protest to the com mittee in which he claimed the inquiry was "a purely personal attack by a vindictive Virginia Democrat [Senator Carter Glass] and a Boston Representative under Roman Catholic domination [George Holden Tinkham].*" He declared his campaign activities were for Presidential electors who, he claimed, were State officers and thus beyond Congressional jurisdiction...
...Coleridge numbered among ways of idleness reading magazines and spitting over bridges. Today he would have added going to the pictures and listening to the wireless. The British Broadcasting Com pany does magnificent work, but it is a form of idleness if we make funnels of our ears without making intellectual effort...