Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Applications will be received until December 15, 1923, and the final awards will be made in the early spring of 1924 For a more complete and detailed description of the fellowships to French universities, further information may be obtained on application to the Secretary of the Society, at 525 West 120th street, New York...
...Miss West, whose The Judge was last year one of the books most discussed in literary circles, is vivid, animated and, in certain poses and moods, beautiful. She has dark hair, dark eyes dark skin, bright lips. She talks quickly and brilliantly. Her conversation is lit with epigrams and she has moments of caustic comment on life in general and people in particular. One of the most ardent feminists for years, she nevertheless does not smoke. To her lecture tour which starts this week she looks forward with much trepidation. But she is a good actress (she once acted...
...Miss West is of an old Scotch-Irish family. Her mother was a musician and came of a family of musicians. Her father was Irish, from County Kerry - descended, I believe, from Sir Anthony Derry whom Hol- bein painted and who was a Privy Councillor under Henry VIII...
...like your reporters!" said Miss West, who had just received a flock of them at the Waldorf. I reminded her that she hadn't yet seen their interviews. We had now reached Central Park West. The park surprised her. She wanted to know if she could ride in it. We assured her on this point, whereupon she assured us that the air of New York City was exceedingly intoxicating, that she was quite happy and that she was prepared to enjoy herself thoroughly in America...
...reached New York late in September and is now in the west. He is to be in Philadelphia about the middle of November, then visits Chicago, and reaches Boston by November...