Word: finley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mellon would make the U. S. Embassy at Princes Gate a brighter social centre than it has been for years. His daughter, Mrs. David K. Este Bruce, was to arrive next month to act as his official hostess. With him already was his trusted friend and speechwriter David Edward Finley who after serving as special assistant in the Treasury, had now been made an honorary Secretary of the Embassy. Less than a week after his arrival would come Ambassador Mellon's first trial-by-banquet?the Pilgrim Dinner, with Edward of Wales present to make it special. Speech-loving Britishers...
...only privately owned dinosaur's egg in the U. S.; that his wife (Dolores Costello) calls him "Winkie"; that he maintains a large aviary in which his favorite is an ugly vulture named Maloney. Once, when Ethel Barrymore was engaged to an English army officer named Graham, Finley Peter Dunne suggested a way for the couple to work out a budget: "Jack and Lionel will support them on the money that Ethel gives to Jack and Lionel." John Barrymore now has a yacht, the Infanta. His pennant is a king snake wearing a crown. Last week he was injured...
This year's enthusiasm for U. S. painting and its founders moved forward in New York last week with two memorial exhibitions. One, at the Metropolitan Museum of the portraits and landscapes of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, commemorated the 100th anniversary of the telegraph. One, at the Public Library of the amazing wood engravings of Timothy Cole, famed craftsman of the '90s, recalled the days-before-photo-engraving.* Critics left them unvisited until they had paid their respects to the first showing in years of the painting of the Mahatma Eilshemius...
...point of view may become as various as that of its board of ten editors, who include Dean Ada Louise Comstock of Radcliffe, President William Allan Neilson of Smith, smart Author John Erskine. popular Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton, Editor Will David Howe of Scribners', Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times. Editor-in-chief is William Allison Shimer, 37. onetime philosophy teacher at Ohio State. He is secretary of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and of the Phi Beta Kappa Foundation. Cost of The American Scholar will be met by Phi Beta Kappa. Since little...
When Jay Gould precipitated the famed "Black Friday" of 1869, Helen Gould was a small tot of a year and a half. It was not until 1913 that she married Railman Finley Johnson Shepard. In the 45 years of her spinsterhood?she was plain, plump, not much concerned with "Society"?she dedicated herself to good works while her brothers and sister went out in the world. She scarcely approved of Sister Anna, who spent much money, married successively Count Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane and the Due de Talleyrand; or smart Brother Frank Jay twice-divorced, who dabbled (and still...