Word: adams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Varnum Lansing ("Wilkie") Collins is Princeton's secretary; Frederick Leroy Hutson its onetime registrar. Adam Leroy Jones is director of admissions at Columbia; George Dobbin Brown was librarian at General Theological Seminary. Princeton teachers but not "preceptor guys" were Scientists Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Owen Willans Richardson. Variously famed are Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham (Yaleman), Novelist Maxwell Struthers Burt, Songman Sigmund Spaeth and his crew-coaching, English-teaching half-brother John Duncan, Donald Clive Stuart, adviser of the Triangle Club, Charles William Kennedy, retired chairman of the Committee on Athletics...
...Eden it was the Free State of Prussia from 1920 until this year. Its "fall" was dramatic (TIME, Aug. 1). Socialist Dr. Otto Braun who had been Premier of Prussia for eleven years was driven from power together with Socialist Minister of Interior Dr. Karl Severing. Cartooning them as Adam & Eve, Kladderadatsch ("Slapbang"), famed German comic weekly, pictured Chancellor Franz von Papen (who did the ousting by presidential decree) as a Biblical angel with a flaming sword. Last week Angel von Papen drew his sword again in earnest, swished it ominously, announced that his "Cabinet of Monocles" will carve...
Under the decree which ousted Prussia's Adam & Eve, her Government is vested in a Federal Commissioner, blunt Dr. Franz Bracht. He took the line last week that he and all his ministers are not responsible to the Prussian Diet, but solely to President von Hindenburg. Therefore Dr. Bracht let Prussian Deputies elected by three-fifths of the German people rave, rant and grow purple in the face...
President de Valera woggled his large Adam's apple but did not reply...
...bowl" (a bright bare room for inquisitions) at Mineola headquarters, given the third-degree for eight hours. An autopsy showed Stark died from a fractured larynx, complicated by a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was horribly marked. Explained the District Attorney: "Some overenthusiastic police officer broke that man's Adam's apple...