Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JILL SOMERSET-Alec Waugh-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Rambling story of a middle-class English girl, who avoids the political conflicts that split her family, the moral chaos that engulfs her sister, keeps herself occupied raising three children and fighting off rivals for her husband...
Critics were thunderstruck to learn that the $500 Palmer Prize for marine painting went to one Hayley Lever of Caldwell, N.J. and not to that persistent and popular sea painter, Frederick Waugh (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Possibly the fact that Artist Waugh's entry entitled Ante Meridian (the one with the surf on the right) had already won one prize last December may have affected the judges...
...some 120 correspondents and photographers who originally beseiged Addis Ababa for news only a scant dozen had not left by last week. Gone were Karl von Weigand, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker and Evelyn Waugh. The Ethiopians had cheated the pants off the correspondents as individuals and collectively mulcted the world's news and newsreel services to an extent which makes Ethiopia journalism's worst investment of all time...
...citizen were given a blank check and told to go out and buy, according to his own taste, a new painting by a U. S. artist, he would probably pass up the works of Benton, Curry, Wood, Kroll and Speicher, invest in a seascape by Frederick Judd Waugh. Later he would be considerably surprised to learn that the Bentons, the Currys, the Woods, the Krolls and the Speichers all looked disdainfully down their artistic noses at Oldster Waugh (pronounced Waw). Last week for the second successive year Artist Waugh won the $200 prize for the most popular painting...
Frederick Waugh won the 1934 Popular Prize at Pittsburgh with another marine picture called Tropic Sea (TIME, Dec. 17). Still another Waugh seascape entitled Post Meridian took the $500 Palmer Prize for marine painting at last spring's National Academy. In Chicago last month bewildered Mrs. Frank Logan, wife of the Art Institute's honorary president, picked a fourth Waugh seascape as the sort of picture she really liked, in contrast to the sarcastic canvas that had been awarded her $500 prize (TIME, Nov. 18). Artist Waugh, spry at 74, produces about 75 canvases a year. The Grand...