Word: wood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They will never call him Papa Pershing," War Correspondent Hey wood Broun wrote 22 years ago in France. Last week, when the commanding general of the A. E. F. was 79, there was no record that any of his one-time doughboys had yet called him Papa. But many a veteran of World War I sent birthday greetings to John J. Pershing, General of the Armies...
Adelbert Ames III, William Ames Atchley, Joseph Smith Bigelow, III, John Morton Blum, John Crapo Bullard, Gaelen Lee Felt, John Michael Harrington, Jr., Robert Heywood Hoskins, Edward Eyre Hunt, Jr., Martin Collins Johnson, Allan Lewis Levine, Harold Thayer Meryman, Henry Whitney Munroe, Joseph Crawford Scott, Carl Bryce Seligman, Preston Wood Smith, Jr., John Leland Sosman, John Finley Williamson, Jr., Brooks Wright...
...Walter Page to the red-draped oak-and-leather office in Downing Street. There he saw a man like him only in that both are deeply religious, an extremely tall, gaunt, bony-faced man, with a sensitive mouth and a talent for gentleness, the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax. The end came on Sunday morning, September 3 when Kennedy sent a triple priority cable to Secretary Hull reporting that the British had moved up their ultimatum deadline to Hitler one hour. There would...
...etchings into a big heap of rejections, a little heap of selections. His little heap appeared last week as a book* containing 100 (10 in. by 13 in.) black & white prints by such top-flight U. S. artists as Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, Boardman Robinson, John Sloan, Grant Wood, for the first time brought together the most significant black-&-whites by outstanding U. S. artists in a handy, inexpensive form. Thoughtfully, the publishers perforated the binding edge of all the prints so they may be taken out for framing...
...none of the Treasury of American Prints was new, most were standard favorites: few of Critic Craven's prints were misprints. Big-shot artists such as Benton, Curry, Sloan and Wood were allotted five or six pages apiece, others from one to three. There were prints to suit everybody. People who itch and fidget when confronted with the self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied...