Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics noted that the work of many artists who are members of the Grand Central Galleries Association has been pointedly omitted from Mrs. Harriman's exhibition. So has that of a good many famed Englishmen and Frenchmen. But although the omissions in this, as in every other international exhibition, will lead to discussion, possibly even to ill-feeling, not even the disgruntled artists themselves could question the patrician disinterestedness of a lady who is one of the most noted sponsors of good art in this country. She was helped in choosing the American artists by Marius de Zayas...
...Englishmen seem to have forgotten all about backward America in the fury of their religious wars. Ten famous English writers, including Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were inveigled into writing their religious thinking, into the headlines of the London Daily Express under the title "What I Believe...
English educators have expressed disappointment over the steady decline in American enrolment at Oxford, since Englishmen in general have hoped that Anglo-American amity might be further developed through the presence of large numbers of Americans in British universities...
...genius was recognized but his character was aspersed. The objections of Englishmen and Americans may be found in a nutshell, as it were, in a letter of John Sterling addressed to Carlyle...
...easy for Englishmen and Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century," continued Professor Walz, "to do justice to this phenomenon in the world of letters; it had been difficult for Goethe's own countrymen. Whatever has been urged against Goethe,--his supposed lack of moralty, his irreligious, his coldness and selfishness, his disregard of others, his inconstancy,--you may find it all in the works of Borne and Wolfgang Menxel and in other German writers preceding them...