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When the new Free State Dail meets, President Cosgrave (really a Premier) will go out of office in the same way that a British Premier goes; and Governor-General James McNeill who represents King George in the Irish Free State will doubtless shake the hand of Mr. de Valera (actually Premier). What will de Valera do then...
...Bishop Cannon said he did not fear. He has previously defended his action on the ground that the Corrupt Practices Act deals only with Federal officers. Presidential electors, for whom the money was spent, are State officers, says he. It was indicated that his lawyer, Robert H. McNeill, might file a demurrer to the indictment upon this ground...
...Gallery of American Art, now installed in its new Georgian building. In the nine sky-lit gallery rooms are some 100 U. S. paintings valued at $1,500,000. Among them: three Winslow Homers, George Wesley Bellows' Anne in Purple Wrap and Dempsey-Firpo Fight (lithograph). James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Battersea Bridge, works of Abbott Thayer, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Arthur B. Davies, Julian Alden Weir, John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, and many another modern; Early American works by Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull, Benjamin West. There are six rooms for permanent and loan...
...Rothenstein autobiography contains many a Rothenstein portrait, innumerable anecdotes of his famed friends. Immaculate James McNeill Whistler always called him "Parson." Rothenstein's frantic efforts to keep Verlaine sober at Oxford are fully described. Walter Pater was grievously hurt at Parson Will's drawing of him, asked his friends privately "Do I look like a Barbary...
...most famed modern U. S. painters were both expatriates.* James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was born in Lowell, Mass. He studied unsuccessfully at West Point. A job in Washington, in the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, got him interested in etching. He went to Paris to study art, never returned to the U. S. Before he died he was at the top of his profession...