Word: metcalfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Death came to Willard L. Metcalf, famed artist. He succumbed to a heart attack while sitting at breakfast in his Manhattan studio...
...Willard Metcalf, 66, was born in Lowell, Mass., apprenticed when 17 to a wood-engraver, later to one George L. Brown, landscape artist of South Boston, in whose service he got up at six o'clock, walked ten miles to work, swept out the studio, built the fire. Saving his pennies, he got together enough to go to Paris where, it is said, he lived on "three cents a day" studying under Boulanger and Lefebvre. Occasionally he sold a picture. In 1888, one of his paintings was hung in the Salon. Tired of his poverty, he left Paris, became...
...JOHN D. LONG, VICTOR HOWARD METCALF, GEORGE VON LENGERKE MEYER...
...desires of the party caucuses: for the Republicans, Borah, Chairman of Foreign Relations; Mc-Lean and Edge, Foreign Relations; Phipps, Chairman of Education and Labor; Hiram Johnson, Chairman of Immigration; Willis, Chairman of Territories; Cummins, Chairman of Judiciary; Butler, Judiciary, Naval Affairs, Patents; Means, Claims, Immigration, Judiciary, Mines; Metcalf. Education and Labor, Library, Naval Affairs, Patents. For the Democrats: George, Banking and Currency; Ashurst, Irrigation and Reclamation. ¶ Discussed the administration bill for spending $10,000,000 a year for five years on adequate Housing for Government offices in the Capital; given up when Senator Fletcher offered an omnibus building...
...chunky, direct man with Phipps of Colorado was Phipps' new colleague, Rice W. Means. Other new figures were wiry little Mr. Metcalf of Rhode Island; white-headed Deneen of Illinois (who awaits March 4 to take his seat...