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Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright 1756-93, American portrait painter, b. Bordentown, N.J., son of Patience Lovell Wright. He studied under Benjamin West in London, where he painted the prince of Wales (later George IV). Wright worked briefly in Paris, where he knew Franklin, whose letters of recommendation enabled him... Read more
James Wright
James Wright 1927-80, American poet, b. Ohio. He studied at Kenyon College and the Univ. of Washington. The master of an elegant, beautifully controlled style, his early poems contained surrealistic juxtapositions. Later works abandoned willed complexity in favor of a plainer diction. His works inc... Read more
Jim Wright
Jim Wright (James Claud Wright, Jr.), 1922-, U.S. congressman, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1987-89), b. Fort Worth, Tex. Following service in the U.S. army during World War II, Wright was a Texas state representative (1947-49) and mayor of Weatherford, Tex. (1950-54). He was elect... Read more
Wright brothers

Wright brothers

The American aviation pioneers Wilbur (1867-1912) and Orville (1871-1948) Wright were the first to accomplish manned, powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine.

Wilbur and Orville Wright were the sons... Read more

Henry Wright
Henry Wright 1878-1936, American landscape architect and community planner, b. Lawrence, Kans., studied architecture at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He was widely recognized as a leader in the movement for the building of better communities. He served (1918) as town planner for the Housing Division o... Read more
Richard Wright
Richard Wright 1908-60, American author. An African American born on a Mississippi plantation, Wright struggled through a difficult childhood and worked to educate himself. He moved to Chicago in 1927 and in the 1930s joined the city's Federal Writers' Project and wrote Uncle Tom's Children (1938... Read more
Wright Morris
Wright Morris (Wright Marion Morris), 1910-98, American writer, b. Central City, Nebr. He was for many years professor of English at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State Univ.). His fiction treats the relationship of the burden of American history to the present, and the evolution a... Read more
Frances Wright
Frances Wright (Fanny Wright), 1795-1852, Scottish-American reformer, later known as Mme Darusmont, b. Dundee, Scotland. After her first tour (1818-20) of the United States she wrote an enthusiastic account of her travels, Views of Society and Manners in America (1821). In 1824 she returned to th... Read more
Judith Wright
Judith Wright (Judith Arundell Wright), 1915-2000, Australian poet. After graduating from the Univ. of Sydney, she worked variously as a clerk, secretary, and statistician. She is regarded as one of the most important Australian writers of the 20th cent. Her lyric poetry is marked by sensitivity of... Read more
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
Stanton Macdonald-Wright 1890-1973, American artist, b. Charlottsville, Va. Macdonald-Wright was among the first Americans to paint in a totally abstract mode. Together with Morgan Russell , he founded synchromism in 1912. In paintings such as Oriental Synchromy in Blue-Green (1918; Whitney Mus.... Read more

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Wright, Frank Lloyd
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 – 1959) was considered one of the most influential...influenced every sphere of twentieth century architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most dramatic and eccentric U.S. geniuses...
Elizur Wright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Elizur Wright Elizur Wright (1804-1885) was an American reformer whose interests ranged from...at home in a government bureau as on the speaker's stump. Elizur Wright, born in Connecticut on Feb. 12, 1804, was descended from moderately...
Richard Wright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Richard Wright The works of Richard Wright (1908-1960), politically sophisticated and socially involved...perceptive about the universal problems that plague mankind. Richard Wright was born in Natchez, Miss., on Sept. 4, 1908. His mother...
Wright, James Skelly
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law WRIGHT, JAMES SKELLY James Skelly Wright served as a federal district judge in Louisiana from 1949 to...1981, he was the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court. Wright distinguished himself as a district judge during the 1950s when...
Wright, Richard
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Richard Wright Born: September 4, 1908 Natchez, Mississippi...African American writer The works of Richard Wright, a politically sophisticated and socially...Southern upbringing Richard Nathaniel Wright was born in Natchez, Mississippi, on...
Wright, Jane Cooke
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Jane Cooke Wright American physician Jane Cooke Wright (born 1919) was a prominent twentieth-century cancer researcher. The daughter of a prominent physician, Jane Cooke Wright followed her father into medicine and eventually became the...
Frank Lloyd Wright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Frank Lloyd Wright The American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) designed dramatically innovative buildings...or successful, among American architects, Frank Lloyd Wright set himself the task, as no previous architect had, of...
Carroll Davidson Wright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Carroll Davidson Wright The American statistician and social economist Carroll Davidson Wright (1840-1909) organized the Bureau of Labor...objective research on labor problems. Carroll Wright was born on July 25, 1840, in Dun-barton...
Frances Wright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Frances Wright Frances Wright (1795-1852), Scottish-American socialist, feminist, and reformer, was the first woman to speak publicly in America. Frances Wright was born in Dundee, Scotland, on Sept. 6, 1795. Orphaned at...
Wright, Henry Clarke (1797–1870)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Wright, Henry Clarke (1797 – 1870) Henry Clarke Wright devoted his life to overturning structures of domination...whom he ministered during his decades of reform work. Wright was born in Connecticut to a farming family. When he...

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Wright, Frank Lloyd Lincoln
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Wright, Frank Lloyd Lincoln (1869–...Sullivan until 1893. While revering Sullivan, Wright was also influenced by Owen Jones , the...and terraces, suggested in the schemes Wright published in the Ladies' Home Journal...
Wright, Willard Huntingdon
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Wright, Willard Huntingdon (1888–...brother of the painter Stanton Macdonald-Wright . He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia...recently founded by his brother. In 1915 Wright returned to New York, via London, and...
Wright, Wilbur
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Wright, Wilbur (1867–1912) and Orville...flight to 1878, when their father, Milton Wright, gave them a toy helicopter, they opened...early experiments proved disappointing, the Wright brothers realized that the results of their...
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Wright-Patterson Air Force Base located in Dayton...numerous Department of Defense organizations, Wright-Patterson AFB is a major center for aviation...as McCook Field, it was joined by Wilbur Wright Field in 1924, located on land donated...
Wright, Horatio Gouverneur
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Wright, Horatio Gouverneur (1820–...Clinton, Connecticut, Horatio Gouverneur Wright graduated from West Point in 1841 with a...the battle of Spotsylvania in May 1864, Wright became the corps commander. He led that...
Wright, Joseph Jefferson Burr
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Wright, Joseph Jefferson Burr (1801–...techiques to use quinine to combat malaria. Wright skillfully administered hospitals for both...During the first year of the Civil War , Wright served as the medical director for the Departments...
Macdonald-Wright, Stanton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Macdonald-Wright, Stanton (1890–1973). American...art. In 1914–16 Macdonald-Wright lived in London, where he helped his brother, the critic Willard Huntington Wright , with his book Modern Painting: Its Tendency...
Wright, Joseph
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Wright, Joseph (1734–97). English...Derby and generally known as ‘Wright of Derby’. He was one of the...lights’. In 1768–71 Wright worked in Liverpool, and in 1773–...
Wright, John Michael
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Wright, John Michael ( bapt . London, 25 May...Magdalen Aston , Castle Mus., Nottingham). Wright's most unusual work is an allegorical...greatest master of his time’). Wright was a collector, antiquarian, and scholar...
Wright, John Lloyd
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Wright, John Lloyd (1892–1973). American architect, son of Frank Lloyd Lincoln Wright . He trained in his father's studio at...children's toy, and in 1949 the first of his Wright Blocks, inspired by his father's enthusiasm...

Thesaurus entries related to "Wright"

craftsman, craftswoman
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English craftsman, craftswoman • noun   synonyms : master, expert, skilled worker, dedicated/meticulous worker, artist, artificer, artisan, technician, maker, smith, wright.
imitation
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English imitation • noun   1. the house was built in imitation of Frank Lloyd Wright synonyms : emulation, resemblance. See imitate 1.   2. the comic's imitations of celebrities synonyms : mimicking...
look
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus look • verb   1. Mrs. Wright looked at him synonyms : glance at, gaze at, stare at, gape at, peer at; peep at, peek, take a look at; watch, observe...
artisan
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus artisan • noun  artisans from around North America will demonstrate their crafts synonyms : craftsman, craftswoman, craftsperson; skilled worker, technician; smith, wright, journeyman; archaic artificer.

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Wright Hits the Big Time at Last; Taylor Bout Presents the Veteran With His Biggest Opportunity
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/17/2006; ; 700+ words ; Winky Wright spent more than a decade boxing in foreign...Mich., and Chester, W.Va. So as Wright faces undisputed middleweight champion...under the bright lights of Las Vegas. Wright, who was born in the District and lives...
Wright: No House Rules Broken
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/11/1988; ; 700+ words ; House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tex.) yesterday offered a detailed...Accompanied by his lawyer, William Oldaker, Wright released copies of a lengthy narrative...version of the transactions at issue, Wright said, "The point of this is that if...
Wright Dominates Trinidad, Wins Match
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/15/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...05-15-2005 Dateline: LAS VEGAS Winky Wright, of St. Petersburg, Fla., celebrates...May 14, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Wright won by unanimous decision after 12 rounds. The man Wright is riding on is unidentified. (AP Photo...
WRIGHT LOST $100,000 LOAN ON BAD INVESTMENT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/2/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...committee counsel's report on Speaker Jim Wright is there any mention of his worst financial...company that went bankrupt. Not only did Wright lose every penny of his loan, but he also had to repay $13,500 in what Wright's attorney has described as company...
Wright at home // He changed face of U.S.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/7/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...one architect would fit that bill: Frank Lloyd Wright. And 100 years ago, Wright created his Oak Park home and studio, where he...stretched from the Victorian era to the nuclear age, Wright evolved and re-invented himself. Along the way...
Wright Spirit Awards go to stewards of his legacy
Newspaper article from: Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL); 11/1/2006; 700+ words ; The Wright Spirit Award, the highest accolade given by the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy honoring those individuals and...demonstrate extraordinary efforts in the stewardship of Wright buildings or furtherance of the Wright legacy, was...
Barry Wright announces amendments to its agreement to sell Wright Line and losses for second quarter and first half of 1988.
PR Newswire; 8/2/1988; 700+ words ; BARRY WRIGHT ANNOUNCES AMENDMENTS TO ITS AGREEMENT TO SELL WRIGHT LINE AND LOSSES FOR SECOND QUARTER AND FIRST HALF OF...LOWER FALLS, Mass., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Barry Wright Corporation (NYSE: BAR) announced today that it has...
WRIGHT VOWS A BATTLE OVER ETHICS FINDINGS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/14/1989; ; 700+ words ; ...his political life, House Speaker Jim Wright delivered an emotional defense yesterday...conviction and energy that I possess," Wright said at a packed press gathering at which...times during his half-hour speech, Wright choked on his words and seemed to fight...
WRIGHT CASE HEARD TODAY PANEL TO BE URGED TO DROP TWO CHARGES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/23/1989; 700+ words ; ...fly about Democratic pressure on House Speaker Jim Wright to resign, Wright's attorneys today will make a high-stakes effort...investigation and the filing of 69 charges against Wright, could determine Wright's future as speaker. Top...
WRIGHT: NO HITS, BUT NO COMPLAINTS HICKORY GRAD THRILLED AFTER MAKING METS DEBUT.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 7/22/2004; 700+ words ; ...36 p.m. Wednesday , a smiling David Wright bounded out of the Shea Stadium dugout...poised and trigger fingers ready. And Wright was just adjusting his batting gloves...seemed too insignificant in the debut of Wright, the Chesapeake native and the latest...