Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Frank Travia was acquitted. Chemical analysis had show.n the woman's brain to be saturated with alcohol, her blood with more than enough carbon monoxide to cause her death. To the jury box, Mr. Travia's smiling young lawyer rushed, shook hands all around. He, Alfred...
At the annual meeting of the Harvard Club of Boston on March 16, the following members were unanimously elected to office for this year: president, C. F. Adams '88; vice-president, N. F. Ayer '00; secretary, T. S. Ross '12; treasurer, P. W. Thomson '02. The board of governors, elected...
Thoughtful commentators like Lord Bryce are no longer read ("too longwinded"). Brilliant specialists like Thomas Beer are chuckled over, then dismissed as satirists ("too clever"). Lewis Mumford steps forward, more penetrating than a Van Wyck Brooks, more coherent than a Ralph Adams Cram, far more mature, mannerly and historical than...
Then came the Civil War, "a white gash." Lincoln, a man of full height, was cut down. Soon after, men were describing life as "not dying." Industrialism continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but...
11) John Quincy Adams.