Word: laszlo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Painter Chandor's grandfather was Count Laszlo Chandor of Hungary, kin by marriage of the great Prince Metternich. His mother was an Irishwoman. Raised in England and at heart an Englishman, he, like many another young gentleman, considered it more sporting to go into the War as a "Tommy" in the ranks than to get a commission. After he came out, the tailstroke of what had smashed him up "a bit," smashed his family's fortunes. Instead of grubbing along or "going out" to the U. S. or Canada, he squared off at life, determined to develop his strongest talent...
...Count Laszlo Szechenyi, the Hungarian Minister, took his wife, who was fashionable Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, to Newport, R. I., and there, amid surroundings thoroughly familiar to her, established his little diplomatic court. A veteran diplomat, he well knows the impossibility of escaping Washington's torridity in Washington...
Frank Billings Kellogg was caught last week by London newsgatherers between the studio of Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, who is painting a Kellogg portrait to hang in the State Department at Washington, and a golf course. Said Mr. Kellogg: "I said almost everything one could say in regard to international peace during my term as Secretary of State. . . . As one of the authors of the Peace Pact, I should not talk about it, but I feel satisfied that it made a great impression throughout the world...
...Modern artists flayed as Ananiases: John W. Alexander, Alma-Tadema, Bakst, Blashfield, Bonnat, Allan Clark, Kenyon Cox, Daniel Chester French, Gerome, Laszlo, Manship, Mestrovic, Sargent, Lorado Taft, Zuloaga...
Hungarian Minister Count Laszlo Szechenyi, to present friends. British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard, to present friends...