Word: bostonianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replace the late "Ike" Hoover as Chief Usher of the White House, President Roosevelt appointed a lanky 36-year-old Bostonian named Raymond Muir. Chief Usher Muir was assistant to "Ike'' Hoover for four years...
...lack of interest in society, so unlike his first wife Consuelo Vanderbilt, who divorced him in 1920 and next year married Lieut.-Colonel Jacques Balsan (as the Duke carefully points out in his Who's Who entry). Directly after Consuelo's divorce, His Grace married cool, beautiful Bostonian Gladys Deacon. While he danced spryly at night clubs, she has stayed at home. When they gave receptions last winter he frequently stood alone at the head of the stairs. During the recent London Season he lived alone at the Ritz Hotel, gave big week-end parties without...
...when someone remarked that the Government paid for the paper cups. She uses no powder, no rouge, no perfume, dresses mostly in severe blacks and dark browns. Her eyes are dark and brilliant. She has shapely white hands that flutter expressively as she talks. She uses the broad Bostonian "A," never gropes for words. In five months Madam Secretary Perkins has started an elaborate investigation by distinguished citizens to improve the Immigration Bureau; organized the new Federal Employment Service; launched a thoroughgoing survey of the shirt industry to weed out sweatshops; jacked up the Labor Statistics Bureau by appointing able...
...Chapel Burying Ground where are buried many of the early leaders of Massachusetts. King's Chapel, the first Episcopal Church in Massachusetts next occupies the attention of the party. The Old South Meeting House now a museum for Revolutionary relics, the Old State House, now the museum of the Bostonian Society; and Fansuil Hall, "the Cradle of Liberty", complete the list of important places that are visited during the afternoon...
...Dewing, 53, Bostonian born, was long a noted figure at Harvard, no less for his trenchant teachings than for his handsome beard-which has never been shaved, which once, on shipboard, caused him to be mistaken for a Maharaja. No mere academician is he. Ten or 15 years ago he began buying up small New England utility companies that were not doing too well. Turning precept to example, he put them on a profitable basis. While Insull interests and New England Power Co. were struggling for control of New England utilities, he more than held his own, adding...