Word: addison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Internationalism", Professor Addison, Standish Hall Common Room...
...third of the memorial's cost will be borne by the estate of the late U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Edgar Addison Bancroft at whose instigation it is being constructed. His friend and fellow Chicago attorney Henry M. Wolf (of Judah, Willard, Wolf, and Reichmann) has contributed another third. Viscount Shibusawa having made up the rest, the monument partakes of a binational character soothing to the feelings of Japanese unfriendly to the U. S. The present U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh moreover greatly resembles his very generally popular predecessor, Ambassador Bancroft. The names of both men are identified with...
Boca Raton. Thomas Coleman du Pont, Jesse Livermore and a few others equally as prominent recently resigned from the directorate of Architect Addison Mizner's 16,000-acre, $40,000,000 project here. Lot buyers owed $21,000,000. Creditors have sought to force a receivership...
...with the students' leisure day they would not be in the predicament so eloquently described by the recent report of university professors condemning intercollegiate football as now conducted. That report reads like the expressions of dismay of the "wets" on the morning after prohibition. The professor engaged in his Addison walk of contemplation has bumped into the stadium and cannot imagine how it came into existence. Fear, which is the child of ignorance, cries. "Down with it," but second thought suggests that the institution is here and that the sooner it is brought into line with the general purpose...
...your periodical is far above the mental standard of that well known person, "the average American." Your witticisms, your skillful use of the English language, the brilliant literary style of your periodical?which as a news publication will probably attain in years to come as great a renown as Addison's "Spectator"?seem to be sadly misunderstood by a large proportion of your readers. Also, and what is more to be deplored, this attitude on the part of an uncultured list of subscribers seems to have reacted on you to the point of lowering the literary standard...