Word: burr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their author. The dialogue, especially the ejaculations ("By cock and pye!", "Shut your clamtrap!", "A real, spang beauty!") are as racy and robustious as the points of honor are delicately sharpened, polished and thrust home. Author Minnigerode, master of informal biography (The Fabulous Forties, Lives and Times, Aaron Burr, Some American Ladies) has outdone himself in a piece of biographical fiction second to none this season...
Pliny Jewell of Coffin and Burr Inc., Boston, was chosen association president to succeed Ray Morris of Brown Brothers & Co., Manhattan...
...their graves, four onetime Bayard Senators must have chuckled proudly, said: "Nice work, Tom-you have that old Bayard fight in you." The four† dead had once been fighters: 1) James Asheton Bayard, Senator (1805-13), battled for the election of Thomas Jefferson against Aaron Burr. 2) Richard Henry Bayard was first mayor of Wilmington, Del., Senator (1836-45), Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court...
...Burr's Plan Ratified...
Plans for a nation-wide Harvard meeting of every Harvard Club in its own city on Armistice Day, 1926, were suggested by Allston Burr '89, chairman of the Harvard War Memorial Committee, to the Chicago meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. The Chicago club, through its president. John S. Miller, immediately approved the suggestion, and other clubs are following suit. At this nation-wide meeting reports will be made of the contribution of the membership of each club toward the Memorial Church fund, and it is anticipated that the money may be raised in time to make a full...