Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rembrandt, Tiepolo and Whistler are represented. Moreover, there are two groups which show a specialization in collecting not unworthy of a museum. One of these is a collection of small engraved silver snuff boxes; the other consists of miniatures comprising examples painted by Copley and Benjamin West. John Paul Jones, Robert Morris, Charles Sumner and two signers of the Declaration of Independence are among the subjects of this collection...
Last week an arbitration treaty between the U. S. and France was signed at Washington by Under-Secretary of State Robert E. Olds and Poet-Statesman-Mystic Paul Claudel, French Ambassador...
James Gilliland Simpson, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, visiting the U. S., attended the dinner of the Church Club, in Manhattan. After the banquet was over, he rose to his feet, looked fixedly toward the ceiling and delivered a short oration on U. S. customs and eccentricities. Said he: "... I have not yet summoned up courage enough to enthrone myself like Buddha in one of your shoeshine parlors...
When Jefferson Davis was President of the Southern Confederacy, he and Robert E. Lee were accustomed to attend services in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. The most fashionable church in the South, its pews were filled every Sunday with arch, starched ladies, who often took only a perfunctory interest in the services, and elaborately gallant grandees who, with some show of munificence, dropped their confederate greenbacks into the collection plate. St. Paul's is still a fashionable church. Its rector, the Rev. Dr. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., last week pleased most of his parishioners, surprised...
...Levine,'Byrd, Maitland & Hegenberger, Brock & Schlee across sundry oceans and continents. A tactless person once asked the designer of the Wright motor why he did not receive more glory for making this horse for heroes. The designer's answer was brief: "Whoever heard of the name of Paul Revere's horse?" Not for his modesty but for "the greatest achievement in aviation in America . . . demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year," the National Aeronautic Association awarded the Collier Trophy last week to Charles Lanier Lawranee, designer of the Wright Whirlwind motor, president of the Wright Aeronautical...