Word: tate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parliamentary Secretary to the then Premier David Lloyd George. It was while acting in this capacity immediately after the War that he was host to the Supreme War Council at his gorgeous home at Port Lympne, Kent. He is also a trustee of the National and Tate (art) Galleries, the Wallace (art) collection and of the British School at Rome...
...succeeded Jonson in 1638 in an identical capacity, and it was not until 1670, two years after Sir William's death, that Dryden became the first to hold the official title of Poet Laureate, an appointment that has continued to the present day. Poets Laureate since Dryden: Shadwell, Tate, Rowe, Eusden, Cibber, Whitehead, Warton, Pye, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Austin, Bridges...
...Hall, Chairman, Miss Barbara Hall; A. E. Currier, Miss Elizabeth Farnham; E. A. Harper, Miss Patricia Tate; J. H. Faull, Miss Anna Faull; R. O. Wooten, Miss Helen Lucas...
King George, with Queen Mary, postponed their arrival at an important cricket match last week long enough to "open" a new wing in the big modern-and-foreign galleries at the National Gallery of Modern Art, known as the Tate Galleryš over by the Thames riverbank. There they greeted the donor of the new galleries, Sir Joseph Duveen, merchandizer of Art to U. S. and other millionaires...
...Joseph has, with characteristically sensational effulgence, bedizened the new galleries in green marble doorways, marble parquets, gilt ceilings, much after the fashion of his celebrated "torture rooms" deep within his fancy Fifth Avenue establishment. Of course there were paintings at Tate too-especially, 14 Sargents whose noble canvases have not become so numerous on the art-dealers' shelves as to be in need of much publicity, preceding facile disposal. A notable picture hung was that of the beheading of John, the Baptist, by Puvis de Chavannes. Degas was well represented as well as some brilliant paintings by Bancini, Daumiur...