Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clare Leighton's own engravings have won flattering acceptance in Europe. They have been bought for the two national English collections, those of the British and South Kensington Museums, and also for the Swedish National Collection. In the United States her engravings have been purchased, among others, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum, and the New York Public Library. Miss Leighton has also contributed engravings to several magazines, and is now illustrating Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native...
...Europe. There they won recognition and financial backing. That is why, when Orville Wright believed that the Smithsonian Institution at Washington was erroneously giving the late Samuel Pierpont Langley credit for the first man-carrying airplane, he sent his Kitty Hawk plane to the Science Museum' at South Kensington, London, for preservation...
House, in quiet Kensington (London), where they settled down fairly permanently in 1914 when Belgium engaged the Hoover genius to keep 10,000,000 warhemmed people fed for four years. Intellectual, she helped her husband in his post-War diversion of translating Georg Bauer's De Re Metallica from cryptic 16th Century Latin into quaint but useful English...
...involved. But in the partisanship of the Smithsonian Institute in behalf of the Langley airplane, Orville Wright, co-designer with his brother of the first man-carrying machine, finds that credit is stinted the achievement. His subsequent disposition of the Kitty Hawk plane as a gift to the South Kensington Museum is decidedly a mark of displeasure that benefits the English institution while depriving the American one of a monument to courage and ingenuity, as well as to the first conquest...
Professor Eric R. D. Maclagen, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, has been chosen as the incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry for the coming year...