Word: sassoon
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...exact passages which Professor Capeland will read are not yet announced, but some of the authors from whose works he will choose selections are Fielding, Kipling, Sassoon, and Donald Ogden Stewart...
They saw, first of all, ten portraits painted in England by John Singer Sargent, never before exhibited in the U. S. Notable among these was the artist's portrait of Lady Sassoon-an arrogant, amazingly refined countenance portrayed with the delicate distinction characteristic of aristocracy and Sargent at their best. There, too, was one of Mr. Sargent's famed Werthheimer portraits. There was Munning's picture of the Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, his graceful chestnut mare. There was Sir James J. Shannon's portrait of the Princess Patricia, loaned by the Duke of Connaught...
...Among the bravest men I knew in England were those who had the courage to refuse to fight," declared Siegfried Sassoon, the English soldier-poet, who spoke before a large audience in the Living Room of the Union last night. "Thank God that in that terrible time there were men strong enough to suffer for their convictions...
...Sassoon, in a short speech preceding his reading of his war-poems, gave this as a part of a message which he "had come to America to deliver to the men who may take part in future wars, and their wives. I do not wish to take away from the glory of those brave men who fought in the war," he said; "it is only because the little acts of kidness which the performed for one another in the midst of that Hell,--when they showed their true mettle,--accentuates its horrors, that...
...Sassoon is now touring this country to describe to American audiences the spiritual upheaval that has taken place in the English writing of the last few years