* Cecilia Beaux's Contemporaries Judged Her to Be the Cat's Meow ; History Sees a Bit of a Chameleon, The Washington Post, March 9, 2008, washingtonpost. com

Her obituary, in the February 8, 1975 edition of The Washington Post newspaper, reflects her many contributions to military heraldry.

Her father, Joseph Smith, worked for United Press International in Paris and moved to Washington, D. C., United States in 1966, where he became The Washington Post < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s first official obituary editor.

Her performance won her widespread acclaim ; Hal Hinson of the Washington Post saw Pfeiffer's role as " the least obvious and the most difficult.

Her most notable work was at the Dumbarton Oaks estate in the Georgetown district of Washington, D. C. for Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss ( 1922 – 1940 ).

Her numerous private estate projects include the landmark Dumbarton Oaks in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D. C.

Her tenure is credited with seeing The Post rise in national stature through effective investigative reporting, most notably to ensure that The New York Times did not surpass its Washington reporting of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandal.

Her first solo exhibition, " What a Farm Wife Painted ", opened October 1940 at Otto Kallir's New York City gallery Galerie St. Etienne, followed by a meet-and-greet with the artist and an exhibition of 50 paintings at Gimbel's Department Store November 15, followed by a third solo show in as many months, at the Whyte Gallery, Washington, D. C. " Gimbels had supplemented Moses ' art display with a table beneath the paintings spread samples of Grandma's culinary talents — homebaked bread, rolls and cake, plus some of the preserves which won her prizes at the county fair.

*" Dame Nature Interviewed on the Woman Question as It Looks to Her " Kate Field's Washington ( 1890 ): 138-40.

Her longtime friend Jim McDermott of Washington told Newsweek that he and other left-leaning Democratic congressmen sometimes wish that " she would tilt a little more our way from time to time ".

Her work has also been showcased at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at the Hirshhorn, a Smithsonian Museum, in Washington DC amongst many other International museums.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Her father, Francis van Arnum Brown, worked at a number of jobs, including as a clerk at the Washington Patent Office and as a manager and salesman for a wholesale butcher.

* Her investigation of the Blackwell's Island insane asylum is dramatized in a 4-D film in the Annenberg Theater at the Newseum in Washington, DC.

Her father William Washington Gordon II was a Confederate Captain in the American Civil War, and a Brigadier General in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War.

Her sharp criticism of the BIA resulted in the dismissal of her husband from it in 1916, following which the couple relocated with their son to Washington D. C.

Her family moved to Washington, D. C. in 1939 when Edwin was appointed to a position in the United States Department of Agriculture ; moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1942 when he was appointed as branch manager of the Office of Price Administration ; and later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Her writings have also appeared in a number of other publications, including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, O: the Oprah Magazine, Politico and The Huffington Post.

Her book Washington Rollercoaster recounted the Gotliebs ' years as glamorous hosts in Washington during the Reagan Era, when she wrote a much-read column for the Washington Post.

Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, People, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune.

Her first job in journalism was as a copygirl for the now-defunct Washington Daily News, but shortly after she was promoted to cub reporter, she was laid off as part of massive cutbacks at the paper.

Her Journal was an important laboratory for her creativity serving as both sketchbook and literary experiment where in tiny handwriting she reported on society, recorded her impressions of art and artists, recounted stories, and observed life around her.

Her cult titles include Sito (: wheat ) as the giver of food or corn / grain and Thesmophoros (, thesmos: divine order, unwritten law ) as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society.

Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.

Her writing often makes use of alien cultures to examine structural characteristics of human culture and society and their impact on the individual.

Her findings were later criticized by anthropologist Derek Freeman who later investigated her claims of promiscuity and conducted his own ethnography of Samoan society.

Her father, Alonso Sánchez de Cepeda, bought a knighthood and successfully assimilated into Christian society.

Her son, James Crofts ( afterwards Duke of Monmouth and Duke of Buccleuch ), was one of Charles's many acknowledged illegitimate children who became prominent in British political life and society.

Her limited charms and conventual upbringing were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and within a few weeks of her arrival she became aware of her difficult position as the wife of a licentious king, but, although Charles continued to have children by his mistresses, he insisted she be treated with respect.

Her desire to moderate the religious persecutions of previous Tudor reigns — the persecution of Catholics under Edward VI, and of Protestants under Mary I — appears to have had a moderating effect on English society.

Her lack of understanding of the social mores of the society she so desperately wishes to enter ultimately leads to tragedy.

Her actions shocked Nara society and led to the exclusion of women from imperial succession and the removal of Buddhist priests from positions of political authority.

Her father, William Smith ( 1707 – 1783 ), a liberal Congregationalist, and other forebears were Congregational ministers, and leaders in a society that held its clergy in high esteem.

Her Star Trek character was groundbreaking in the racist society at the time, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. personally praised her work on the show and asked her to remain when she was considering leaving the series.

Her parents, James Sullivan and Edith Lanchester, were considered Bohemian, and refused to legalise their union in any conventional way to satisfy the era's conservative society.

Her main character was detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force, but in three novels he is assisted by the nosy society spinster Amelia Butterworth, the prototype for Miss Marple, Miss Silver and other creations.

His Lettres galantes du chevalier d ' Her ..., published anonymously in 1685, was a collection of letters portraying worldly society of the time.

Her personal charms were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and in a few weeks after her arrival she became aware of her painful and humiliating position as the wife of a licentious king.

Her husband ( whose mission had been in abeyance and himself in Holland for three years ) was accredited to the French republic by the regent of Sweden ; his wife reopened her salon and for a time was conspicuous in the motley and eccentric society of the Directory.

Her status-seeking crusade to makeover Abner and marry him off into high society was doomed to failure, however.

Her humorous images of daily life, her realism in depicting the society of the time, and her satirical characters all appear in the work of subsequent singer / songwriters.

Her early years were clouded by the execution of Henri of Montmorency, her mother's only brother, for intriguing against Richelieu in 1632, and that of her mother's cousin the Count François de Montmorency-Boutteville for duelling in 1635 ; but her parents made their peace with Richelieu, and being introduced into society in 1635 she soon became one of the stars of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, at that time the center of all that was learned, witty, and gay in France.

Her association with pollution mainly streams from her relation to outcaste communities, considered to be polluted in Hindu society.

* Her third son, Rudolph d ' Ornano, was also an influential figure in the French society ; his descendants created the well known fragrance and cosmetics brand Sisley.

Her connections to New York society and the accompanying social pressures to leave the new life she had created for herself did not deter her from embracing her religious vocation and charitable mission.

Her desire to be the unchallenged grande dame of New York society was as much about preserving the heritage and traditions of her native New York, a conflict dramatized by Edith Wharton in The Age of Innocence, as it was about excluding those whom she deemed inferior.