Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven last week Lorado Taft, U. S. sculptor who was born the year before the Civil War began, declared, before the students assembled in Sprague Memorial Hall for the final Trowbridge lecture, that: "As Americans we have a perfect and inalienable right to our ignorance...
...decree dated Nov. 5, 1920. The Y. M. C. A. is neither Polish nor Catholic. It is supported by Protestants and heretics and anyone who gives a cent to this institution is harming the Church and Polish youth. We can not give our Catholic youth to this American heresy, born and bred of Protestant propaganda, which is now being spread over the whole world...
...lyric tenor voice of Roland Hayes, Negro singer, has "brought down" many a house. Now, with concert box office proceeds, the same voice is to raise some houses -schoolhouses. Near Calhoun, Ga., where Roland Hayes was born, he has bought 600 acres and will build an institution as a memorial to his mother, to whom he ascribes all his success. The name: "Angelmo" (contraction of "Angel mother"). The nature: "a place where inspiration and talent and ambition of any kind among my own people, (and yours, too, if any of them choose to come; the doors will never be closed...
...JOHN A. STEWART ESTATE APPRAISED." Thus people were reminded of John Aikman Stewart, long known as Wall Street's oldest financier. Born in 1822, he knew most U. S. Presidents since Jackson, served Lincoln ably as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The appraisal of his net estate, filed last week, showed he had accumulated a little more than $3,700,000 in his 104 years...
...risen who is baiting the literary public almost as successfully as does Bernard Shaw. Indeed the new messiah once employed the alias "Shaw," and there were those who hoped and whispered that he had been born beneath a Shavian rose. Today, however, weighty British reference works have pinned down this elusive youth with the finality of taxidermists transfixing a butterfly. His name shall be henceforth Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, his birth date Aug. 15, 1888, his land of origin Wales; and if the taxidermists have made a mistake, the joke is still very much upon the butterfly...