Word: nevinson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rocks off South Island, near Australia, and broke up soon after the crew and passengers were removed. Among the shipwrecked paintings were two oils by Sir William Orpen, several water colors by Laura Knight, a collection of modern etchings by Frank Brangwyn and C. R. W. Nevinson...
...correspondence in The Sun this morning Mr. H. W. Nevinson undertakes to generalize on the subject of Oxford and Cambridge. Oxford men, he discovers, are introverts and Cambridge men extraverts, and thus explains to his own satisfaction why Cambridge has continually beaten Oxford in the boat race and in other sports during recent years. The contention is at least not without interest. Are such generalizations possible with regard to American universities...
MORE CHANGES, MORE CHANCES- H. W. Nevinson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). Memoirs of an English newspaper correspondent, who championed many an under dog with such adroit charm that he won the unstinted praise of so exacting an editor as the late H. W. Massingham...
...American rodeo at the British Empire Exhibition is not popular with a certain section of the public. John Galsworthy, famed author, and Henry W. Nevinson, international correspondent of The Manchester Guardian, loudly condemned it for its cruelty. Said the latter: "I think that everybody who agrees with our view of the rodeo should take a vow never to go near such a performance. We should appeal to the President of the Exposition, the Prince of Wales, to say he would never go to it and that would be sufficient in itself to stop...