Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Women of social position often take up art. They devote themselves to it as other women devote themselves to needlework, and it makes them happy. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, as all the world knows, took up art some time ago, and took it up not at all as if it were cross-stitch. It became evident that she had talent. Critics acclaimed her; debutantes pressed her hand and murmured, "How fascinating-to dedicate your life to Art." In the course of her extremely active career she has received few rebuffs-but last week one came...
...city council of Providence, R. I., has for some time been looking for a design for a War Memorial. A sculptor named Pietro Montana submitted one. The committee liked it. Then Mrs. Whitney sent in hers, and the committee liked it better. Sculptor Montana was notified that his would not do after all. Mrs. Whitney was notified that hers would probably be accepted. But certain members of the Rhode Island chapter of the Institute of Architects inspected Mrs. Whitney's idea and found it "appalling." They notified the memorial committee that they thought that the monument...
...speakers at the smoker has definitely accepted the offer. W. L. Nichols '26, a member of the Student Council, and a former president of the CRIMSON, who was recently awarded a Rhodes Scholarship from the Massachusetts district, is to be the undergraduate speaker. Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney '17 has been invited to speak, but has not yet definitely accepted the offer. Other possibilities are being considered, but the complete list of speakers, and also the date of the smoker, have not yet been determined It seems likely that the Gold Coast Orchestra, which recently played for a Columbia record...
...Graphic ignorantly referred to Elinor Wylie as Elinor Wiley. Also the Graphic ignorantly referred to Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney as "the former Alice...
...third development, more than passing interest attached to the arrival at Manhattan of the famed U. S. architect, Whitney Warren, who announced that he had recently spent some hours at a luncheon, tete a tete with his friend Clémenceau. Mr. Warren declared roundly that he had never seen M. Clémenceau in better health and spirits or more fully in touch with the current situation in France. The famed whiskers may droop like the tusks of an old walrus, but between them the decisive jaw continues to snap with the fierce pugnacity of a bulldog...