Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received a petition that he submit U. S. membership in the World Court to the Senate for ratification. Among many notable petitioners were: John Joseph Pershing, Julius H. Barnes, Roy Wilson Howard, Felix M. Warburg, Jane Addams, Newton Diehl Baker, Seward Prosser, Matthew Woll, Fred John Fisher, Edward A. Filene, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Herbert Bayard Swope, Silas Hardy Strawn, Myron Charles Taylor, Admiral William Sowden Sims, Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
...Pierre Roy is fiftyish, stocky, wears pince-nez and a very neat toothbrush mustache. Educated in England, he still buys his clothes there, is seldom seen without his bowler hat, yellow gloves and tightly rolled umbrella. M. Roy is completely bilingual and looks not unlike Premier André Tardieu. He has more over attained the nirvana of the French bourgeoisie, he is a rentier and need never paint a stroke, could live quite comfortably on his inherited income...
...Pierre Roy has always been a painter, has given many a nourishing meal to the founders of Cubism. Though Derain, Picasso, Giorgio (horses) de Chirico are still his good friends, he has been influenced by none of them. Slowly, painstakingly, he has developed his own style. He takes about six months to finish a picture. The 42 canvases exhibited last week represent most of his life's work-28 of them already belong to various collectors...
...wordy preface to the exhibition catalog by the French critic, Waldemar George, contains such gems of critical thought as "Art is made of double meanings. Pierre Roy . . . comes out of the infernal circle of twentieth century art and changes his centre of gravity. ... In the view of Pierre Roy the picture ... is not a picturesque visible fiction. It is a second phase of life. It is also a reincarnation." M. George also describes M. Roy as a petit maître- a Little Master. By that M. George presumably means that Pierre Roy is not interested in the faces...
...these still lifes Artist Roy attaches sprightly titles: "The Quartermaster's Farewell," "Danger on the Staircase," "Love Killed by the Customhouse," "Offering of Asparagus...