Word: philadelphian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essence if less "experimental" in a literary way than the New Directions annual. Combining autumn 1939 and spring 1940 in a fat third number, the current Twice A Year temporarily assumes annual status. It is edited, designed, published and supported by a calm, brown-eyed, well brought up Philadelphian named Dorothy Norman who takes literature and liberalism both together and equally seriously...
...Kennedy. In Paris William Bullitt, onetime Philadelphia socialite, dilettante left-winger, champagne-gossip of Europe, consistent Hitler alarmist, has the greater fund of pre-War post-War knowledge, has long been the "closest" to Roosevelt. In Poland, ducking German bombs* was Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, another rich young (42) Philadelphian, who had turned serious diplomat...
...Roosevelt relied last week on as extraordinary a brace of diplomats as any U. S. President has ever had on a serious diplomatic battlefield. His favorite sentinel abroad is Ambassador to France Bill Bullitt: bald, slim, elegant, as close a student of all Europe as was that other rich Philadelphian, Dr. Benjamin Franklin. By placement more important now is autonomous Joe Kennedy in London: hearty, gum-chewing, tough-minded as Bismarck. Both have achieved in almost unprecedented measure the confidence of the Governments and the peoples to whom they are accredited. Neither France nor Great Britain has for years...
...account of myself as the "stolid Philadelphian" in "U. S. Illustrators" . . . was acceptable enough especially when I found my name associated with Daumier and with Forain...
Philadelphia School. As worthy as Gibson to be called the dean of U. S. illustrators, in the opinion of many artists, is a stolid, 68-year-old Philadelphian who now lives in a white frame house and raises chickens in Gladstone, N. J. Frederic Rodrigo Gruger studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts along with Artists John Sloan and William Glackens, got into illustrating as they did, by doing newspaper work in Philadelphia. Gruger remained an illustrator. After 1899 when George Horace Lorimer became editor of the Saturday Evening Post, Gruger became the mainstay of that magazine...