Word: brett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thrilled to the classic vaunt: "I'd die for dear old Rutgers." All that was golden about the glorious '90s is bound up in those few quiet words. According to legend, they were uttered after he had broken his leg in the Princeton game by Philip M. Brett, Rutgers football captain in 1891, now a Manhattan attorney. But last week the Rutgers Alumni Monthly robbed Mr. Brett of his glory. Legend was wrong, said the Monthly, in a few particulars. Mr. Brett did not break his leg. Mr. Brett said nothing about dying for dear old Rutgers...
Professor Wallace Brett Donham, A.B., LL.B., Professor of Business Economics and Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
There in the flesh were men whose names stand for houses: Lippincott, McBride, Dorrance, Burt, Brace (but not Harcourt), job-riding merrily together to Grosset (without Dunlap). There was many another publisher or his trusted lieutenant, like shrewd young George Brett Jr., representing the comparatively vast Macmillan interests. One and all were making a junket out of a serious Washington to appear en masse at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the House of Representatives on a subject close to the hearts of all U.S. authors, song writers, scenarists, printers, librarians, dramatists, actors, librettists and bookbinders whatever, but most...
Last week in Cambridge, Mass., Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University announced the Harvard Advertising Awards...
...WOODSMOKE Francis Brett Young-Dutton...