Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking much like an extremely competent and self-effacing butler, a tall, baldish German walked upon the stage of Manhattan's Town Hall one day last week to give the first important recital of the U. S. concert season. Pianist Walter Gieseking, absent from the U. S. for two years, had already established himself as a prime interpreter of the subtle iridescences of Claude Debussy. Long before he reached Debussy (which he admits he plays "the right way . . . without any noticeable motion of the fingers"), Gieseking made his audience aware that in two years and more than 200 European...
Citing the statement of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, in which he said that "the three military dictatorships of Japan, of Germany, and of Italy are more menacing forms of despotism than Communism," the petitioners say that they agree with such doctrines...
...late, great Jane Addams shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with the eminent Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. Moreover, Theodore Roosevelt once called her "America's most useful citizen." But down to the end of her long life in 1935 Jane Addams was never so proud of anything as she was of Hull House, the lively, sprawling Chicago settlement which she founded in 1889, where she worked until her death. When Miss Addams, an erect, brown-haired young lady of 29, first appeared with her equally lady-like friend, Ellen Gates Starr, in the big red-brick house that Lawyer...
...teaching-legal duties had worn him to a frazzle and he returned to Yakima to practice. After ten days he changed his mind, hustled back to Manhattan to teach full time at Columbia. A year later he idealistically resigned because President Nicholas Murray Butler appointed a new dean of the Law School without first consulting the faculty. Shortly afterwards at a party in Pelham he met famed Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins of Yale Law School. Next day Hutchins telephoned from New Haven, hired Bill Douglas to teach law at Yale. There he was director of bankruptcy studies, collaborated with...
Winthrop 6: l.e., Magrane, Butler, Moore, Peters, Cobb, Harris, Evans; q., Hindle; I.h., Peden; r.h., Riddell; f., Blumberg. Substitutes: Balanchard, Cole, G., Cole, S., Gilliland, Schweppe...