Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hopkinson Smith delivered a stirring lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "American Mud, and Those it Spatters," in which he maintained that the United States shows a want of civilization which has not its counterpart in any other country of the world. We neither honor the dead nor the living; we "throw...
...author. He has done much landscape work in water colors and has lectured on art subjects. In 1900, he was made Commander of the Order of the Osmauyeh by the Sultan of Turkey. In the following year, he was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and in 1902 he received a gold medal from the Philadelphia Art Club. Yale University awarded him the degree of L.H.D. in 1907. The delightful short stories that Mr. Smith has written are well known. Among them are "The Tides of Barnegat," "Colonel Carter's Christmas," "The Under...
...LECTURE. "Reilroad Operating Associations." Mr. William F. Allen, Secretary of the American Railway Association, New York. Emerson...
...facts which seem worth publication in view of off repeated statements about Memorial board? The high price of board there during the fall has been attributed to the "transient" system. Three or four hundred men are eating there now under this system and about five hundred on the American plan. It is then important to know whether this accusation is true...
...LECTURE. "Railroad Operating Associations." Mr. William F. Allen, Secretary of the American Railway Association, New York. Emerson...