Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field in sprinting and jumping. But until last week no Negro boy had ever won a U.S. championship for the mile. Now the Negroes have broken in there too, thanks to New York University's Frank T. Dixon 3rd, 20-year-old son of a onetime Butler University track star...
...late great William Butler Yeats was a poet of genius, a man of parts (of which few sold at popular prices), a deep-sea diver in the lugubrious pearl-gulfs of the occult, a political thinker to set men's teeth on edge...
...decided, at length, to marry his good friend Georgie Hyde-Lees, "if she were not 'tired of the idea.' " She was not, and they were married in London in October 1917. His old fencing companion, Ezra Pound, was best man. In February 1919, in Dublin, Anne Butler Yeats was born. Yeats told a friend: "George [his wife] announces from the horoscope that the child will be good-looking and lucky," and wrote a magnificent poem to her, praying that she might not, like beautiful Maud Gonne, develop an "opinionated mind...
...Glass kissed the old man on the forehead. From the sidelines, Annie and Sam, Negro cook and butler, showed their white teeth. Then Carter Glass posed for pictures ; was helped in to dinner by his nurse...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell was no orthodox conservative. He was also damned for refusing-unlike Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler-to fire an outspoken German subject, Philosopher Hugo Munsterberg, from his faculty during World War I. He likewise refused to fire radical Harold J. Laski, who sided with the Boston police strikers in 1919. Lowell opposed the strikers, but defended Laski's academic freedom...