Word: augustus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Triumphant, a virile, blond, blue-eyed, silky-haired, silky-bearded Savior (see cut). The Newhouse Galleries in Manhattan and St. Louis held showings of the canvas, in a room by itself. Col. Todd sent reproductions to the Pope, to Albert, King of the Belgians, and to Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David, Bishop of Liverpool, who recently led some fellow churchmen HI demanding more virile pictures of Christ (TIME, Feb. 27). Praised in the Federal Council Bulletin for its "strength, charm, grace, courage," The Nazarene will be placed in the Hall of Religion at Chicago's World's Fair...
...Winner over several potently backed aspirants was Captain Perceval Sherer Rossiter, 58, husky, scowling commanding officer of the Naval Hospital at Washington. He and President Roosevelt had never met before the decision to make him the Navy's highest medical officer. Sufficient was the recommendation of Claude Augustus Swanson, new Secretary of the Navy, Captain Rossiter's longtime friend...
Dean Harry Augustus Bigelow of the University of Chicago Law School was appointed trustee of bankrupt Insull Utility Investments, Inc., after Calvin Fentress and William W. Wheelock had been disqualified by Judge Wilkerson because they were elected by the debenture holder's protective committee, supposedly partial to the Insulls. Dean Bigelow's feelings: "Begin at the bottom and work...
...many, the fact that the Juilliard was not seeing the Metropolitan through its difficulties seemed as unaccountable as Mr. Erskine's erroneous implication. When Augustus ("A. D.") Juilliard died in 1919 he was president of the Metropolitan boxowners. He had grown up in Stark County, Ohio, migrated to Manhattan, made a fortune in textiles which toward the end of his life interested him far less than the opera. He went to nearly every performance. He was in his box the night he became fatally ill. In his will he left $14,000,000 to create a Juilliard Musical Foundation...
William Mathews Sullivan, a music-minded lawyer, made public the details of Augustus Juilliard's will the day before John Erskine announced the Juilliard Foundation's gift. For two weeks Lawyer Sullivan had withheld his statement waiting for the Juilliard to act. Then he attacked the Foundation for shunning its Metropolitan obligations, for leaving unoccupied an "apparently ample building." for engaging too many foreign instructors. Mr. Erskine claimed in his retort that the principal of the $14,000,000 endowment was still intact, still yielding an annual income of $600,000. He said that last spring the Juilliard...