Word: dyson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will Dyson and Peggy Bacon had exhibitions in Manhattan galleries last week. Critics all over town began talking about Daumier, for though the U. S. pays its humorous artists better than any other country, U. S. satirists of intelligence, with real technical ability, are as rare as good deeds...
Probably an abler artist than Peggy Bacon is William Henry Dyson of England who hung more of his brilliantly bitten etchings at the Ferargil Galleries last week. Grey-haired, slender and 48. he was born in Ballarat, Australia, still speaks with a rich bush-twang. He emerged from the War a witty cynic with an artistic manner reminiscent of Beerbohm the Exquisite, but with an even surer command of line. Possibly to make the Beerbohm parallel less marked he adopted etching as his medium two years ago. Like Max, half the effect of his pictures is in the written...
Once described as "a bitter cynic who etches plates with the acid of his own bile," Will Dyson is personally the height of amiability. He beamed last week at a group of reporters (female...
...Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, has announced that his invitation sent to the president of the International Astronomical Union. Sir Frank Dyson, Royal Astronomer of London, inviting the organization to hold the 1932 congress at Harvard has been accepted...
Probably the best known timepiece in the world is Big Ben, giant clock atop the Houses of Parliament. His Majesty's Astronomer Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson revealed in London last week that Big Ben was not only one of the most famed, but, for an old clock, one of the most accurate of timepieces. After a 288-day comparison with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (Astronomer Dyson's special charge) it was found that Big Ben's maximum deviation was only 1.4 sec. per day, that only on 21 days in the whole period of observation...