Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot of the comedy, which is having its first showing before metropolitan audiences, is simple. William Augustus Jones, employed as a copywriter in the Carver Advertising Agency, conceives the idea that the only way to get on in business is to build up acquaintances on the golf course, and to swing big deals at the nineteenth hole. His plans for an advertising campaign fail to please Mr. Wilson, the manager of a giant soap factory, who takes his business away from the Carver Agency...
...James M. Beck, David Belasco, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul D. Cravath, John W. Davis, Robert W. De Forest, John Emerson (President of the Actors' Equity Association), Charles Dana Gibson, Robert Underwood Johnson, Thomas W. Lament, Clarence H. Mackay, Frederick William MacMonnies, Frank L. Polk, E. T. Stotesbury, Augustus Thomas, Harry Payne Whitney, George W. Wickersham, Owen D. Young...
...including not a few personages (TiME, July 28), were ushered to seats of privilege in Chapin Hall. There was just room for them all. Some were bearded, some were bald; all looked interested. They were the chosen few of more than 1,000 who had applied to Chairman Harry Augustus Garfield, President of Williams College for membership in the fourth annual session of the Institute of International Politics. How, why, by whom the 200 were selected were matters for conjecture. But there they sat, wise men from far and near; and Dr. Garfield mounted the platform to welcome them...
...They elevate their noses. They tiptoe. While this procedure is undoubtedly appropriate when the exhibit is very bad, John Sloan, at the Independents' exhibition in Manhattan (TIME, Mar. 24), urged the public to keep their hats on. Now comes Homer St. Gaudens (TIME, May 12), son of Augustus. Said he to newspapermen at the dedication of a new art museum in Houston: "Reassure your public that putting on felt slippers to draw near a picture is unnecessary...
...unsuccessful endeavors of Peter Augustus Jay, U. S. Minister to Bucharest, in attempting to dissuade the Rumanian Government from enacting a bill prejudicial to the interests of U. S. capital in Rumania had but one result: able Diplomat Jay is returning to the U. S. to explain to the State Department the complicated situation...