Word: addison
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...money came from an older brother, the late Edgar Addison Bancroft, crack corporation lawyer and onetime U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1924-25). It will be used to establish the Edgar A. and Frederic Bancroft Foundation at Columbia...
Private Norton G. Addison was so pleased with a four-day vacation at a Third Army rest camp in France that he sat right down and wrote his general a thank-you note. His general wrote right back...
...dear Addison-I have been trying to look out for the health and happiness of soldiers for 35 years. However your letter is the first time I have ever received written thanks, and I am very appreciative. . . . Happy and Victorious New Year. (Signed) G. S. Patton Jr., Lieut. General, U.S.A., Commanding...
...University of Wisconsin's big, high-domed, Dutch-blooded President Clarence Addison Dykstra is an exceptionally well rounded man. One result is that he has sometimes impressed the state's farmers as too much of a city fellow, the Legislature as too much of a professor, the faculty as too much of a Rotarian type. His resignation last week will take him where folks consider him one of their...
...knew the old Dutch legends of the Hudson, cheerfully lampooned the Ten Eycks and Author Brooks's forebears the Van Wycks, hunted and fished through the farms and forests of Scarsdale and Tarrytown. He excelled at descriptive writing, became a model of English prose more popular than Addison...