Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this quotation from H. L. Mencken, Boston's peppery Porter Sargent in the 28th annual edition of his Handbook of Private Schools sums up his opinion of what U.S. education most needs...
Applications are due on August 15. Sargent Kennedy, Secretary Committee on Scholarships...
Patriot. In Denver, Colo., Sergeant Dudley Sargent was asked how he, spent his money, replied: "I spend the greater portion of my monthly income maintaining civilian morale." Termination. In Tacoma, Wash, poker-faced Young Democrats held a state convention, plumped for a fourth term for Franklin Roosevelt, steadfastly refused to change their own constitution limiting officers to a single term...
...Last week's announcement solemnly promulgated the theory that it is undesirable for the NBC Symphony to divide its season between two conductors of such widely differing methods. (It noted no objection, however, to the Philadelphia Orchestra's Eugene Ormandy and the London Symphony's Malcolm Sargent, both of whom will share the NBC podium next year with Maestro Toscanini...
...some other museums to its preference for the School of Paris, some observers have seen a taste trust in the making, and the Museum has acquired a small but respectably alert number of enemies. It has been attacked by progressives for showing the canvases of U.S. Bravurist John Singer Sargent, and (by Boston's Society for Sanity in Art) for corrupting the hinterlands with Picasso. Its hustling hospitality to Latin American art has been regarded as more than a hint at the policy-making power of former Museum President Nelson A. Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs...