Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Providence has under its special care children, idiots, and the United States of America." This famed remark, attributed to Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth), was a Briton's backhanded way of saying that the U.S. was a success. With few such perceptive quips but a relentless, mind-clogging avalanche of scholarly quotes, furrow-browed Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, 55, says much the same thing in his physically massive (1,036 pages) survey of America as a Civilization. The unavowed note of irony is that, like many a liberal-leftist prodigal son of the age, Lerner, who regularly...
...deceased. Brother Edward's two children, George Huntington Hartford II (the art and theater entrepreneur) and Mrs. Josephine Bryce, share 10% each of A. & P.'s stock, as do Mrs. Allan Mclntosh and Mrs. Charles Robertson, daughters of sister Marie Louise and Mrs. Rachel Carpenter, granddaughter of sister Marie Josephine whose five other grandchildren share the remaining...
Quoting Lord Bryce. he said: "The law of nature represented to the Romans that which is conformable to reason, to the best side of human nature, to an elevated morality, to practical good sense, to general convenience. It is simple and rational, as opposed to that which is artificial or arbitrary. It is universal, as opposed to that which is local or national. It is superior to all other law because it belongs to mankind as mankind, and is the expression of the purpose of the Deity or of the highest reason...
...Welch's received a powerful endorsement from Woodrow Wilson's Administration, when Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan served grape juice at a state dinner in honor of retiring British Ambassador James Bryce. Next year, when Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels caused a national furor by outlawing hard liquor on naval ships and installations, outraged editorial writers and cartoonists did Welch's the favor of dubbing the U.S. fleet "the grape-juice Navy...
...hook on the pending Powell amendment (which would bar segregated school districts from funds under the $1.6 billion school construction bill), eight Democratic Representatives wrote President Eisenhower requesting his promise that the Administration would not allocate funds to districts that refuse to desegregate. White House Administrative Assistant Bryce Harlow last week replied that the President has no plans for issuing any such statement of intentions...