In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.

The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

George Woodcock was manager and troubleshooter ; ;

The next speaker was George T. Day.

A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

After her separation from her second husband, George Weidler, in 1948, Day reportedly intended to leave Los Angeles and return to her mother's home in Cincinnati.

London reportedly complained to friends Joseph Noel and George Sterling that, " is devoted to purity.

The film reportedly cost only $ 60, 000 and was difficult to make as both Carpenter and O ' Bannon completed the film by multitasking, with Carpenter doing the musical score as well as the writing, producing and directing, while O ' Bannon acted in the film and did the special effects ( which caught the attention of George Lucas who hired him to do work on the special effects for Star Wars ).

He reportedly shared with a surprised George H. W. Bush, at the time the Director of the CIA, his fear that some of the portraits in 10 Downing Street ( specifically including Gladstone's portrait in the Cabinet Room ) concealed listening devices being used to bug his discussions.

In 2001, Coats was reportedly one of George W. Bush ’ s top choices to be Defense Secretary, a job eventually given to Donald Rumsfeld, who had previously served as United States Secretary of Defense.

The team's popularity had begun to sag due to fan discontent with owner George Shinn's personnel moves ; he had reportedly traded Mourning and several other stars out of an unwillingness to pay them market value.

In 1875, Mitton sold the manuscript to bookseller Francis Harvey reportedly for £ 50 ( equal to £ today ), who sold it to autograph collector, Henry George Churchill, in 1882, who, in turn, sold the manuscript to Bennett, a Birmingham bookseller.

He was the first San Diego Padre player inducted into Cooperstown — a move that reportedly irked Yankees ' owner George Steinbrenner.

Originally named " Gibbs Station ," after Barnett Gibbs ( who eventually became one of Texas ’ first lieutenant governors ), the town was renamed in 1892 for George Coppell, wealthy financier from England who came to the U. S. in the 1880s and was reportedly heavily involved with the final construction of the local railroad line.

On learning the size of the British fleet, which was reportedly " large enough to cover the face of George ", Montcalm ordered Bourlamaque to retreat.

George Lucas himself has reportedly said, " If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.

King George was reportedly more enraged by the breach of protocol than by the nature of the request, yet it attracted the support of the Common Councilmen of London who expressed their gratitude by erecting a monument in the Guildhall, London including a life-size statue of Beckford ( pictured ), surmounting a stone tablet on which the words Beckford had used to admonish the king are engraved in gold.

George Nassar, the inmate DeSalvo reportedly confessed to, is among the suspects in the case.

General George S. Patton — when asked about the Siegfried Line — reportedly said " Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity.

However, the leaders reportedly quarrelled so much among themselves that Cromwell's General, George Monk had little difficulty in winning the ensuing Battle of Dalnaspidal.

Following his debut, George II reportedly could not sleep while Georg Lichtenberg described Macklin's interpretation of Shylock's first line --" Three thousand ducats "-- as being uttered " as lickerously as if he were savouring the ducats and all they would buy.

In February 2003 he reportedly described the George W. Bush Administration's foreign policy hawks as a " Zionist lobby ".

Dan Bartlett of the presidential campaign for then-Governor George W. Bush cited the album — which was reportedly given as a gift at a Democratic political event — as an example of obscenity-laden entertainment marketed to children.

After reportedly paying to have his score for Captain from Castile recorded with the Fox orchestra, Newman conducted a series of albums for Capitol Records, including a recording of George Gershwin's Variations on " I Got Rhythm ".

This reportedly angered both Kubrick — who was notorious for his unwillingness to share writing credits — and Peter George, who penned a complaint to Life magazine in response to a lavish photo essay on Southern published in the May 8, 1964, edition.

Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, a Sparkman supporter who after an assassination attempt had dropped out of the presidential nomination race, reportedly asked how Blount, who had " air-conditioned stables for his horses could be aware of the needs of the common man.

The idea for constructing the canal is credited to Morristown businessman George P. MacCulloch, who reportedly conceived the idea while visiting Lake Hopatcong.

During the filming of George Lopez, Lusha was reportedly privately schooled on set.

Inside the church is a bust of George Washington, which the Marquis de Lafayette reportedly remarked was the best likeness of him he had ever seen.