Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wilderness which is his own creation, only? Is he of the George Washington type, as counsel would have you believe ? Is he not rather of the all too familiar charlatan and demagog type?like Alcibiades, Catiline, and except for a decided difference in poise and mental powers in Burr's favor, like Aaron Burr? He is a good flyer, a fair rider, a good shot, flamboyant, self-advertising, wildly imaginative, destructive, never constructive except in wild non-feasible schemes, and never overly careful as to the ethics of his methods...
Anno Domini 1756 (Feb. 6) : Esther Edwards Burr, daughter...
Jonathan Edwards and wife of the Rev. Aaron Burr, President of the College of New Jersey (Princeton), was unexpectedly delivered of her second child, a son, christened Aaron. The child was son, grandson, great-grandson, great-great-grandson of clergymen on both sides of his family...
...AARON BURR-Samuel H. Wandell & Meade Minnigerode-Putnam's, 2 vols. ($10). To show that a man is not always so black as he is painted, here are told the intimate details of the life of the third Vice President...
...Frank Sullivan says in conclusion: "After Mr. Ali's performance, one does not hesitate to say that the stomach has definitely arrived in art. It is true, of course, that Miss Gilda Gray and Dr. William J. Burr, the noted stomach specialist, have revealed the stomach to us in its true light, but Hadji Ali places it before us in a whimsical, lovable aspect hitherto unknown. And he makes it instructive as well as entertaining...