Word: fellowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...charge of influencing fellow Senators: Senator Irving Ives. In charge of intelligence and publicity: Paul Lockwood, Dewey's secretary, and James C. Hagerty, onetime political reporter on the New York Times, now Dewey's press secretary. In charge of practical politics and the panzer divisions: three of New York's smartest politicians-Lawyer Herbert Brownell Jr., National Committeeman J. Russel Sprague and Edwin F. Jaeckle, onetime state chairman. All of his staff had one thing in common: complete loyalty to Tom Dewey...
Harold Nicolson, not only a writer (Swinburne, People and Things), but a respectable fellow (longtime M.P. and Foreign Office man), was finally picked by George VI as just the man to be the official biographer of George...
Hals Remembered. Painter Sargent was 45 when Edward VII became king, and it was already quite the thing to be "painted by Sargent." He was a portly, generous gentleman, more at home with his fellow expatriate Henry James than with the eccentric Bohemians of the art world. He resisted the Pre-Raphaelites and "Ruskin, don't you know . . . silly old thing." He ignored the principles of art for art's sake, detested Gauguin and Van Gogh. His advice to one of his own disciples: "Begin with Franz Hals, copy and study Franz Hals, after that go to Madrid...
...Bishop Brent suddenly saw things in a new perspective. "I learned that something was working that was not of man in that conference,'-' he said later. "The spirit of God . . . was preparing a new era in the history of Christianity." He set to work to persuade his fellow churchmen that they should consider what they have in common...
Shortly before his murder, Polk applied for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Last week Harvard announced that his selection as a fellow would be entered on its records, and expressed pride "in having a candidate of his high qualities and journalistic distinction...