Word: brook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruled for nine years. His palace of Sans Souci had a brook that ran under it to cool the rooms. He imported two ladies from Philadelphia to take care of his children. With unique ingenuity, he literally found money growing upon trees and gave Haiti a stable currency. He encouraged trade, organized an enormous commerce in sugar, corresponded as an equal with European kings and built a fortress, on the top of a hill near his capital of Cap Hai'tien. In 1820, when an army was marching on his palace, Henry Christophe sent his children away and shot...
...ROGER BROOK TANEY was Attorney General, and not William M. Evarts or Harry M. Dougherty or Harlan F. Stone...
Died. Joseph Ade, 65, brother of Author George Ade; at Brook...
...Edward William Sexton of Winchester; for vice-president, William Temple Emmet of New York City. Thomas Gaunt Moore of St. Louis, Mo., and James Luther Reld of Somerville; for treasurer John Parkinson Jr. of Charles River Village, Henry Frederick Schwarz of Greenwich, Conn, and William Sterling Youngman Jr of Brook line...
There are still a large number of rooms left in the Philadelphia Y. M. C. A., which has volunteered to provide accommodations for members of the University on the night of the Pennsylvania football game, November 5, according to the Graduate Secretary of the Phillips Brook House, who received the invitation. The Association will provide single rooms at a regular rate of $1.50 and $2 each, and if enough reservations are filed in advance at the P. B. H., will undertake to lodge men in dormitories at the University of Pennsylvania at $.75 a night...