Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia before 3,500 citizens who assembled in the Academy of Music. John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain, made the presentation of the $50,000 check, with $50,000 more to follow if the referendum now being taken shows "sufficient popular support." Dr. Charles Herbert Levermore of Brooklyn, former President of Adelphi College, was the recipient...
...Yale, class of 1879, and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, 1885. At the latter institution he attended cotemporaneously with Woodrow Wilson, whom he knew well. They were fellow members of the Glee Club. Later he became a Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Principal of Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, President of Adelphi College. Before we entered the War he was a pacifist, later an ardent supporter of President Wilson's program. He is Secretary of the World Court League, of the League of Nations Union, and the New York Peace Society, has held office in other similar organizations...
...Southern accent. He attended Hamilton College?this he holds a bond in common with Alexander Woollcott, the increasingly weighty dramatic critic of The New York Herald. As a bitter and somewhat bumptious critic Mr. Weaver made his early reputation on the Chicago Daily News. His columns in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle have been characterized by fearless honesty and a remarkable freshness of expression. Certain of his critics have intimated that Mr. Weaver was and is the only extant member of the so-called "Younger Generation." This is, perhaps, unjust. Mr. Weaver grows old slowly; but he is growing older...
...Catherine's Hospital in Brooklyn has installed a phonograph in its operating room. It is painted white, like an icebox...
...metre dash, indoor: Bob Mc-Allister of Brooklyn, 11 sec. (According to A. A. U. officials it was the first time the 100-metre race had ever been held indoors...