Word: gill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eric Gill's War memorial for Leeds University, England, recently unveiled by the Bishop of Ripon, has aroused as much comment for being " off the subject" as Sir William Orpen's painting To the Unknown British Soldier. Gill's work represents Christ with a seven-thonged whip, driving before him a woman with a vanity case, a man with a pawnbroker's emblem, men in top hats and frock coats. The sculptor explained: " We still have money-changers in England...
...Brangwyn, the great etcher, a chance to exhibit his powerful lithographic epics to millions. He placed before the public G. Spencer Pryce's impressive studies of the life of the poor and the working classes. But he used with equal tolerance the irrepressible creations of Tony Sarg, MacDonald Gill, E. A. Cox, humorists; and the beautiful nature studies of Fred Taylor, F. Gregory Brown, E. Mc-Knight Kauffer, inviting the weary cityman to rural shires. Some of these men, now recognized as the foremost poster artists in England, got their first big chance on the Underground. The Underground literally...
...splitting up of the book makes it possible for many museums and libraries to have pages of this famous Bible, where it would be impossible to secure whole copies. Those which have benefited under this scheme are: Toledo Museum of Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Public Library, Mc-Gill University, University of Pennsylvania, Vassar College, Colgate University, Newark Public Library. Mr. Wells gave to the New York Public Library enough leaves to complete its copy except for one page. Henry E. Huntington paid $50,000 for a perfect Gutenberg Bible. A Bible printed on movable type can be secured...
...first American teacher to go to England in the series of exchange visits proposed by Mrs. Alfred Lyttleton, Lady Astor's companion on her American trip last year (TIME, April 7), is Miss Martha Gill, of Stephen Girard School, Philadelphia. While Miss Gill visits in English homes, an English teacher is in return visiting in New England and Philadelphia...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES? "How To Be a Successful Movie Star," keenly and amusingly satirized, in the person of Merton Gill who learned the technique of Valentino by correspondence and became a new Charlie Chaplin against his will...