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Immediately after the ceremony Lord Willingdon announced that a knighthood had been awarded to the British designer of the project: Charlton Scott Cholmeley Harrison. Undoubtedly the Lloyd Barrage will do more for the people of northwestern India than anything St. Gandhi has been able to think of, but all its waters could not quench Nationalist pride. India seethed with the news that A. A. Musto, native engineer in charge of construction who spent seven hot summers by the dam site, designed much special machinery, was not rewarded...
...British authorities pinned the gold crowns of a major on his shoulders, clapped a tin helmet on his head and sent him to the front to do sketches of the troops and large oil portraits of the generals. It was this series of War pictures that won him his knighthood in 1918. But beside the successful portrait painter there was another Billy Orpen. His soul revolted frequently at painting the smug faces of Success. He never lost his fondness for Gypsies and the color of the West of Ireland. He made brilliant little landscapes. He would sneak away from...
Only old England could have produced him. In no other country could Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) have been at the same time so respectable and so successful. And few men even in England have added knighthood** to their grey hairs by pursuing to the end such a hog-calling as a literary critic's. Evan Charteris's biography, which lets Gosse's own letters do most of the work, gives a fair picture of this peripatetic, ponderous but proficient policeman of Parnassus...
Died. John Jay Curtis, 74, president and co-founder of Publishers Bobbs-Merrill & Co.; of pneumonia; in Indianapolis, Ind. Bobbs-Merrill published first the writings of Poet James Whitcomb Riley; second, Charles Major's novel When Knighthood Was in Flower. Publisher Curtis invented colored book jackets...
...everybody takes a turn at speaking. All's quiet on the western front." The mayors' soviet kept things more orderly thereafter but peace was threatened again when a report got about that the French Government was to decorate Mayor Baker, as chief of the party, with a knighthood in the Legion of Honor. Red ribbons for all or for none was the demand of the other mayors. At an American club luncheon in their honor the mayors greeted General John Joseph Pershing with this cheer: "Omaho! Omaha! Omaha! Ha! Ha! Ha! PERSHING!" The club's president, Theodore...