Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of ' civic heroes' who have done most good for the greater city since its creation 25 years ago. Others similarly chosen were: Mrs. E. H. Harriman (whose private benefactions have been considerable), Nathan Straus and Mrs. Millicent Hearst (whose picture as a public benefactor can be viewed almost daily in her husband's press...
...giving up the attempt, when Parkman, it is said, persuaded Little, Brown and Company to take it. Even then it had a scant sale, until its merit was recognized in England, and in a few years he became the American best known abroad. To come nearer home, our late benefactor, Henry L. Higginson, in early life studied music for several years in Europe, but finding himself unfitted for a musical career, came home, shortly before the Civil War. Severely wounded as a cavalry officer in the Army of the Potomac, he recovered only as it closed. He then tried...
...Flaubert prize of about $3,000, instituted by an unknown benefactor to literature, was awarded to François Robiscon de la Querinière for his novel, The Spanish Grandee...
...expressed in drawn, rather than spoken lines) in this country? We have innumerable competent political artists (Darling, Rollin Kirby, McCutcheon) a few with streaks of genius, none of the stature of Daumier or even of some of the lesser men abroad. If a green uniform would help, let some benefactor import...
...recent sale of part of a plot of land, which was willed to the University in 1700, has enabled the establishment of a scholarship fund provided for by a benefactor who died more than 220 years ago. The land, which is situated in Dorchester near the present Codman Square, was bequeathed to the University by William Stoughton 1650 and was intended to furnish an income to go toward the support of a scholar, preferably from Dorchester. Although the income from the property has been irregular, rent from if has often been applied to scholarships, but the fund has now been...