Word: mcneilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James McNeill Whistler was really two people. He was a pugnacious little dandy in a wide-brimmed, flat hat, who sported a tuft of beard under his lip and tugged at it gently when he was thinking up malicious dodges to discomfit his enemies. Whistler fought the world from the day he was kicked out of West Point for flunking chemistry. ("Had silicon been a gas,'' he is reported to have said, "I would have been a major general.") Between rounds, Whistler became instead an immensely solemn, self-absorbed artist, who turned his friends and the London...
...James McNeill Whistler's stock was going up. Bought from a Manhattan dealer by the Detroit Institute of Arts was the waspish Victorian dandy's famed Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket-the splattery nightscape that moved John Ruskin to a crack about "a coxcomb flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." (Bad Boy Whistler sued Ruskin for libel, won a farthing's damages.) Asking price for Nocturne that year (1875) was $1,000. Price reportedly paid by Detroit...
Russell B. McNeill...
...call him "the best Grade B player in tennis," steadied down. With his two-handed drive, he whipped ferociously at every ball he could lay his racket on, cheered himself after good shots with a "Bravo, Pancho." In the next three sets, he trounced onetime U.S. Singles Champion Don McNeill (still rusty from Navy duty), became the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles. The score...
...five: Frank Parker, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder, Don McNeill, Billy Talbert...