Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Berle is the third member of the Roosevelt campaign "brain trust" to find a berth inside the Administration and like the other two (Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell) he was drafted from Columbia University. Son of a liberal Boston clergyman, Adolf Berle Jr. arrived at Harvard at the age of 13, was widely publicized as an infant prodigy. He wore knickerbockers about the Yard up to his senior year. Graduated with honors at 17, he took a master's degree. At 21 he received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School...
...they part in silent enmity. "John thought his cousin Alfred never had been very nice. He hoped the punches he had got in on Alfred's body would make him so sore that in the morning on the train he would be unable to get out of his berth...
...change in the seating not affected by Bacon's availability is the substitution of Simmons for Swayze at the contested Number 3 first Varsity berth...
...less memorably chantable than Poet Eliot's neatly allusive threnodies, poems by Pound are trademarked by no less scholarship, by language that is both more violent and more obscure. A cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children, Pound has been given a wide berth by U. S. publishers and U. S. critics, but his European reputation is nothing to sneeze at. In bringing out the first U. S. edition of Pound's magnum opus alert Publisher Farrar shows that he has heard a thing or two. On the jacket of A Draft...
...rushed through seven Pullmans to reach the drawing room. He held the Senator's wrist, felt his heart's final flutter. Dr. Richard J. Costello of Cambridge, Mass., who was a passenger in the same car, pronounced Senator Walsh dead. A priest was routed out of his berth to administer conditional absolution and the sacrament of extreme unction. At Wilson. N. C., Dr. Malry Alfred Pittman boarded the train, gave a sedative to hysterical Mrs. Walsh, had her and her husband's body removed at Rocky Mount...