Word: blacksmith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) was called by Theodore Parker "The father of more brains than any other man in America." From his father, a New Haven blacksmith, he inherited distinctive Beecher qualities: dyspepsia, absentmindedness, manual skill, a sense of humor, intellectual curiosity and physical strength. Thrice-married he begat 13 children of whom three died young and the rest lived an average of 81.5 years. While a student of divinity at Yale, as an orthodox Calvinist Lyman Beecher stoutly believed in predestination: man was damned from the start and could be saved only through God's agency. When...
...smoky blacksmith shop of Hugh McMahan at Newport, Tenn. last week, a young New Yorker named Don Cahill was discussing the NRA. Blacksmith McMahan was an NRA man. Cahill was not. Resenting the city man's talk, the patriotic blacksmith let his temper get the better of him. He picked up one of his tools and flung it at Cahill. Cahill flung back. The blacksmith flung another, Cahill returned it, and Blacksmith McMahan drew his gun shot Cahill dead...
...largest purveyors of finance news and ticker service, publishers of the Wall Street Journal) and of Financial Press Co. (Barren's Weekly, the Philadelphia. Financial Journal, the Boston News Bureau); apparently by his own hand (coal gas poisoning); in Cohasset, Mass. A medical examiner said Bancroft entered a blacksmith shop on his estate, sealed the doors and windows, lighted a fire in the forge...
...Charles Dickens were indignantly disgusted, but Arch-Critic John Ruskin put his seal of approval on them, and the Pre-Raphaelites were made. From Oxford came Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Morris to follow the new star. Morris was so enchanted with medievalism that he got an Oxford blacksmith to forge him a suit of armor. When he lowered the helmet's visor it stuck and he had to be extricated; but the coat of mail he wore the whole day and would not even take it off for dinner. The Brotherhood's enthusiasm was sometimes greater...
...bald, old man doggedly fighting for a physical and political comeback. Then he announced Nebraska's new Senator - white-haired William Henry Thompson, a good party friend whom he had put on the State Supreme Court. Born in a Ohio log cabin 79 years ago, son of a blacksmith, Senator Thompson had served on the commission that built Nebraska's new $10,000,000 Capitol...