Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual meeting, last fortnight, of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia-founded by Benjamin Franklin-Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess of Manhattan, famed vitamin-searcher, revealed results of his latest researches in the study of Vitamin D, which everyone knows is the one whose presence in the diet prevents rickets. Searcher Hess had found Vitamin D in fish-eggs, chicken-eggs, snake-eggs, as material for the early development of the species...
President Calvin Coolidge figured in the laughs. His name was signed to a letter saying The Nation was a "darb"; his picture was substituted for Benjamin Franklin's in the masthead of the Saturday Evening Post, which was published "in association with the United States mint and N. W. Ayer...
...Candidate Smith was praised on the East coast by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University, who called him a "high type." Candidate Smith was praised on the West coast by Novelist Gertrude Atherton, great grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, who, addressing her fellow Californians before the crucial May Day primary, said: "Smith is the only man who has any human appeal. . . . He is a man. He is open-minded and openhanded. He stirs the affections. He is honest and direct. He is no humbug professing all things and practicing nothing. Vote the humbugs down. Women want real men to represent...
Among his most famed speeches, away from the groaning board, were speeches at the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, the opening of the Chicago World's Fair, the centennial of Washington's inauguration, his nomination of President Benjamin Harrison. An annual event was his report to the Union League Club, in Manhattan, on his summers in Europe. At the Republican National Convention in 1916, Senator Harding called on him unexpectedly during a lull in the proceedings. Aged 82, he extemporaneously spellbound the hall for 45 minutes. Four years later he repeated the feat...
...other members of the "original 8": Arthur B. Davies, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Everett Shinn, William J. Glackens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, George Benjamin Luks. Five of them are Philadelphians...