Word: sargents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Service Commission (to discuss a successor for Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener - see WOMEN) ; Congressman William E. Hull of Illinois, shortly to sail for Buenos Aires as a member of the Pan-American Highway Commission; John Hays Hammond Jr., inventor (to discuss commercial aviation-see AERONAUTICS) ; Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent; Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget; .Secretary Hoover, recently returned from the West, to present Mr. Coolidge with an invitation to visit California; Senator George H. Moses...
...Blink," went the hammer of the auctioneer. People thought distantly of Velazquez, more immediately of Mr. Sargent, and concentrated what was left of their attention upon a certain Dutchman who was present-one Vanderneut...
John Singer Sargent because, when he was a youth, he had beheld Velazquez' painting, and with discernment enough to realize that he beheld an immortal example of a great master's ability to triumph over his subject, he had copied the picture in the nicest oil-colors on his palet...
Vanderneut (a quaint though unfamiliar name) because, when the hammer descended with its above-onomatopeotized concussion, the noise was no more than a polite acknowledgement from Christie's auctioneer of Mr. Vanderneut's right to pay 6,000 guineas (about $30,000) for Sargent's earnest copy of a master's struggle with difficulties...
...dead painter's sisters, Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Violet Ormond, announced that they had 200 of their brother's water-colors and oils which they would not sell for all the Dutchmen in London...