Word: chapmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London life, signed them with the pen-name 'Boz." The sketches were so popular that the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle regarded him with an increasingly kindly eye. One of them, who had three daughters, was glad to bestow his eldest, Catherine, on rising young Journalist Dickens. Publishers Chapman & Hall suggested Dickens write a series of humorous pieces about a club of Cockney sportsmen, to be illustrated by Artist Robert Seymour. After drawing seven pictures Seymour shot himself; Dickens got another'artist (Hablot K. Browne). With the publication of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837) Dickens...
Other Harvard faculty members to appear on the air in these weekly broadcasts include Dwight W. Chapman, instructor in Psychology, Loring B. Andrews, '25, instructor in Astronomy, David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy, Edward Ballantine, '07, associate professor of Music, Donald H. Davenport, associate professor of Business Statistics, Robert K. Lamb, instructor in Economics, J. Anton deHaas, William Ziegler professor of International Relationships, and Dr. Mather...
...bird propaganda could be more persuasive than Birdman Chapman's own autobiography, published last month.* In it he thus sums up the spirit and purpose of his life: "I had a growing belief, which in time became a religion, in the recreational and spiritual value of close contact with nature, and birds, I was convinced, are nature's most eloquent expressions...
...Birdman Chapman's scientific reputation rests securely on two 700-page volumes on the distribution of bird life in Colombia and Ecuador...
Waking suddenly just before dawn in his Manhattan penthouse. Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, who likes to roam the Mongolian Gobi, dimly saw a small man squatting like a monkey by his bed, staring into his face. Dr. Chapman swore, lunged at the intruder. The man ducked back, fled out on a balcony. Dauntless Dr. Chapman leaped after him, tackled him on the fire-escape. After a moment's scuffle, the intruder kicked away, darted down to freedom. "I am accustomed to years of sleeping in camp and I can feel the presence of anybody." explained Dr. Chapman. "When...