Word: chandlerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chauncey, Philip Dalton, Joseph Davis, Samuel Drury, G. F. Ducey, A. C. Hanford, Dana Hardwick, A. E. Hindmarsh, DeLancey Jay, Shaun Kelly, Henry Keyes, William Lane, Delmar Leighton, Charles Locke, Matthew Luce, George McFadden, S. G. Mortimer, F. R. Moseley, Potter Palmer, John Pratt, J. O. Proctor Hampden Robb, Chandler Robbins, J. D. Sawyer, S. D. Warren, Lawrence Waterbury, P. B. Weld, Barrett Wendell, and S. H. Wolcott...
...DAVIS P. CHANDLER...
...another college, Dr. Conant was made assistant professor six years after taking his A. B. In six years more he became a full professor. His most famed work has been in chlorophyll, the green stuff of life in plants. Last year Columbia University gave Dr. Conant its Chandler Medal, the American Chemical Society (New York section) its William H. Nichols Medal. Dr. Conant is rated a stern taskmaster -and admired for it-by his ablest students. Chemistry is his whole life. Yet he is no absent-minded professor: decade ago he leaped into the Charles River to save a would...
...Newshawks hastily headlined that a split was looming in the Episcopal Church. But churchmen thought not-not in the urbane organization which Cardinal Newman called the Via Media, the Middle Way. The Evanston discussions went placidly on. Bishops Scarlett and Johnson left the floor arm-in-arm. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins of Manhattan called for the hymn, "The Church's One Foundation Is Jesus Christ Her Lord...
...Mind-Reader (Warner). Chandra Chandler (Warren William), alias Chandra the Great, Dr. Munro and the Great Divoni, starts as a fortune-teller in county fairs. He marries a smalltown girl (Constance Cummings), gives up his profession because she disapproves of it, resumes it after being a failure at selling brushes. His assistant (Allen Jenkins) functions as an impudent chauffeur who gathers from the councils of his confreres in garages the information that enables Chandra to become a highly successful wizard, particularly adept at telling suspicious wives where their husbands spend the hours after work. Chandra's precarious prosperity ends...