Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Which reminds us further of the statement by one Mr. White, Civil Service Commissioner down in Washington, that not since Andrew Jackson has Civil Service received such a set-back as in the present administration. Mr. Hurley got a job in the Railway Mail Service; Mr. Tague got a "beautiful floral piece". The President always does things in the nicest...
...French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris found a split in the Army clique, edged it out of power and put in his present Premier, the 70-year-old botanist, Andrew Tosheff, under a semi-Fascist "authoritarian" Government. Colonel Gueorguieff's friends began to say that Bulgaria would be better off without Tsar Boris. Last week in Sofia the Tsar's police uncovered a vast plot to overthrow the Government and perhaps to assassinate the little Tsar, his Italian Queen...
...suit against Phillips Chemical for all of the $600, charging that the judges had fraudulently deleted words from his lists. Last April the case was tried in Manhattan Municipal Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation...
...penny-halfpenny envelopes, addressed in a charming hand. Messrs. Cutthroat hope he will have a good term, and will be delighted to see him at their establishment as soon as he can call (lounge suits from eight guineas). Miss Monica Hipline wants to teach him to dance, Mr. Andrew McLewis wants to lend him money, all sorts of unknown friends are anxious of help him. "It's not your money we want," they say, "indeed, we will not mention the cost of these trifles; it's your help, your welfare, your friendship, your success, your health that we are after...
...well-known British classicist, Herbert Jennings Rose, since 1927 Professor of Greek at the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland, will be visiting lecturer on Latin during the first half-year. Following education at McGill and Oxford, Professor Rose was a Fellow and Lecturer of Exeter College, Oxford, 1907-11, and Associate Professor of Classics at McGill, 1911-15. After service in the army, 1915-19, he was appointed Professor of Latin at the University College of Wales, a position which he held until 1927. He is the author of numerous works on ancient classical cultures and mythology...