Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 60 years after its founding, the University was confronted with financial ruin. An appeal for aid was sent to an alumnus, Charles H. Lewis of Boston, a successful business man. On the stipulation that Norwich University became Lewis College, the Bostonian offered financial assistance to the poverty-stricken institution. This was accepted. It served to tide the school over the most trying period in its existence. Two years later, Mr. Lewis met business reverses. Fulfillment of his agreement in whole became impossible. In 1884, Lewis College again became Norwich University...
...ability and superiority to handle air matters on its own; breezy General "Bill" Mitchell, with his riding crop and spurs, a cavalry man who can fly, an Army man strongly advocating the service union which the Navy dreads; Godfrey Cabot, President of the National Aeronautic Association, a Bostonian of the great Cabot clan, so far interested in New York City as to advocate Governor's Island as a landing field, but in a cool detached manner; R. E. M. Cowie, President of the American Railway Express, a canny, able old Scotchman, describing how the pushcart gave...
...correctly diagnosed, this sad state of affairs is about to be remedied. Mayor James F. Curley, bursting from the confines of his office like the well-known Siberian monk, has issued a set of drastic regulations to curb prevailing immoralities and profanities of the stage. No more will delicate Bostonian ears be shocked with such paipable improprieties as "damn" and "hell"; instead, real hemen will be compelied to relieve their bursting hearts with "My gracious!" and "Oh dear...
...around as well as a vastly influential and uplifting citizen, full of practical knowledge and of utilitarian wisdom, as well as versed in the love of the scholar. In the truest sense he ever has been a public man, though by profession an educator, much as another venerated Bostonian, the late Dr. E. E. Hale, was a veritable public man, though by profession a divine. For the word "public" has broadened with the years, and it is in no small part due to leaders like Dr. Eliot that men have come to recognize the fact that all true service...
...receive enough space to commend to your readers a new adventure in the Bostonian theatre, which deserves their interest, which, in measure, depends upon their support? A little company of amateurs often drawing close to professional skill and pains, has taken the Peabody Playhouse at 357 Charles Street for three months. There they will produce plays of the newer, fresher sort, that within easy recollection were novel and successful in New York; that no other hands are likely to bring hither. They are now making a beginning with "Ambush," as truthful, human, moving tragedy, in little and around the corner...