Word: mcneills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Ronald John McNeill. 1st Baron Cushendun, 73, onetime British delegate to the League of Nations; in County Antrim, Ireland...
Following the centennial of the birth of James Abbot McNeill Whistler, British reporters interviewed Mortimer Menpes, one of the last of Whistler's surviving friends and pupils. Said this etcher and watercolorist, amid the cucumbers and carnations of his Berkshire truck garden : "The curious thing about Whistler was that he was simply no good at the technical side of his job. Even his best-known picture, The Artist's Mother, is fading rapidly. ... He hardly ever talked to us of America except to tell us of his experiences as a midshipman or whatever they call it in the American Navy...
...cane but otherwise apparently untouched by ravages of age or care, the Bishop last week stepped into the District of Columbia Court House. He took an active part in selecting the jury, nodding his approval before each juror was selected, making notes and prompting his swart lawyer, Robert H. McNeill, who sat beside him. When Assistant U. S. District Attorney John J. Wilson got up to outline the Government's case, the Bishop suddenly lost interest. As if it were of the greatest indifference to him he stared at the ceiling, leaned his head back on his hands, finally...
...book is written as if by Alice B. Toklas herself. But cognoscenti, even if they had not been forewarned by advance publicity, would recognize the circular motto on the book's cover-a signature as peculiar to Gertrude Stein as his famed butterfly was to Painter James Mcneill Whistler. The motto: Who & What is Gertrude Stein? "Widely ridiculed and seldom enjoyed," she is one of the least-read and most-publicized writers of the day. Her incom- prehensible sentences, in which an infuriating glimmer of shrewd sense or subacid humor is sometimes discernible, have generated the spark for many...
...legislators, busy setting an all-time record of introducing nearly 2,500 bills in 132 days, relaxed when the chickadee resolution came up. Senator George McNeill of Fayetteville trooped over to the State museum, brought back a stuffed chickadee to enlighten his urban colleagues. Senator Capus Waynick, editor of the High Point Enterprise, listened to Senator Hill's imitative calls, rose up to declare that the Carolina mockingbird was a better singer. In the House someone told Salisbury's veteran Representative Walter Pete Murphy that the chickadee eats insects. "For God's sake," cried...