Word: autographing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasure Room of Widener Library may be seen Shakespeare quartos, autograph letters of presidents of the United States, author's manuscripts, and some illuminated parchment and vellum manuscripts dating from the Twelfth Century...
...succeed Col. White, President Coolidge nominated for promotion Assistant Treasurer H. Theodore Tate, another Tennesseean. Figuratively speaking, Mr. Tate picked up the pen laid down by Col. White and upon a large white sheet of paper executed his own autograph in huge script. The signature was sent to the photo-engraver to be reduced and reproduced upon new Federal currency. Mr. Tate would not let people see how he had signed his name until after his confirmation by the Senate...
...time they entered college until their graduation. The manuscript, which is typewritten, was evidently written by Mr. Dos Passos during his travels as parts of it are dated from such remote places as Beirut, Syria. It is on 214 large sheets and contains many corrections in the author's autograph which show painstaking revision. If one judges from the other markings on the sheets, the printed book itself was set up from them...
...crowds on three continents to smash police lines wherever formed around a Lindbergh terminal was checked in Porto Rico. Six hundred native police, local militia, and the 68th U. S. Infantry suppressed native enthusiasm. Lindbergh was not swamped on disembarkation by crazy students, girls detailed to kiss him, autograph hunters, well wishers, drunks, people. The second experience was an unexpected message from the local Congress requesting in no mild terms freedom for Porto Rico. Apparently there is far less sweetness and light in West Indian relations with U. S. than press dispatches and Lindbergh welcoming crowds might indicate. The Colonel...
Robert Frost is also represented by autographed copies given to Miss Lowell, one of which is inscribed, "For Amy Lowell from Robert Frost for one regular rhymster from another;" and a later book has the autograph; "For Amy Lowell, immortal author of many poems, from her friend and admirer, Robert Frost." Frost attended the University from 1897 to 1899 and is now living at Shaftsbury...