Word: founder
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Apprentice or master, the selection would have made little difference to the founder of the Fund, whose wish was to make poetry live for as many people as possible. As President of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Gray expounded his theory that the "real love of art that brings happiness and inspiration to the heart of man is rare and does not manifest itself in clover criticism." Contrastingly, knowledge of art was in his opinion merely a "common, intellectual interest...
Died. Princess Chevikiar Ibrahim*,72, great-granddaughter of Mohamed Ali (founder of Egypt's modern royal dynasty), cousin of King Farouk and first wife of his father (the late King Fuad, whom she divorced while he was still Crown Prince), grande dame of Cairo society, authoress, philanthropist, five-times-married suffragist leader; in Cairo...
Clean Wind. A.A.'s method (inspired by William James's Varieties of Religious Experience) rests on an appeal to a Higher Power (God, or whatever Force the member prefers) for strength to resist the compulsion to drink. Founder Bill, describing his "spiritual awakening," said: "I felt lifted up, as though the great clean wind of a mountaintop blew through and through." Psychiatrists, who use much fancier words, describe the process as the "use of a religious or spiritual force to attack the fundamental narcissism of the alcoholic...
...wide-open city room that Founder William Rockhill Nelson planned that way, Roy Roberts is easy to see and hard to miss. No secretaries shield him, but callers have to compete with clubwomen, clergymen, panhandlers, bankers, ward-heelers-and reporters who sit in the edges of nearby desks, eyes cocked for an opening. The man to see sits in shirtsleeves, chomping a frayed cigar, nodding vigorously, his stomach like a bolster between him and the desk...
Died. Dr. Douglas Sladen, 91, globetrotting journalist, professor, jack of many literary trades, founder of the modern British (1897) Who's Who, which he edited for three years (he is represented in the 1946 edition with a fat 66 lines, mostly listing his 50-odd books); in Hove, England...