Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, a distinguished surgeon of Puritan spine, wanted him to join the Navy. But his mother was musical and did water colors. Besides, he was brought up traveling abroad, where talented young pencils itch in the art galleries. So John Singer Sargent* became a painter...
That he became perhaps the greatest painter ever born of U. S. parents was due in part to inheritance from a father whose very integrity overruled his prejudice against what, in 1870 when John Sargent was 14, was regarded as a profession not quite respectable...
...upright father even decided in favor of naughty Paris. He had faith in his son. Never was faith better placed. Under Carolus Duran, dutiful young John Sargent so "persevered in the Pine Arts" that he had no time for Parisian gaiety. In a negligee Bohemia his dress remained correct. Amid fads and fashions ornate, voluptuous, bizarre, he followed only Frans Hals and Velasquez. He learned, thoroughly, to build on true middle values, to accent with strictest simplicity...
Then last week, came orders from Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent that Mr. Carroll should be removed from hospital to penitentiary, should change from patient to prisoner. While his wife protested against the "inhumanity" to the prisoner, while his brother described the removal order as coming with "brutal suddenness," Mr. Carroll was taken to Atlanta, where an ambulance met his train at the station and took him to the prison...
Said Attorney General Sargent (after reading reports of government physicians who had examined Mr. Carroll): "There is nothing in his condition according to the reports of the physicians, that should interfere with his removal. . . . We felt we should be perfectly considerate and we have been...