Word: coiner
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...Designer of the Blue Eagle was Charles T. Coiner, Philadelphia artist. Its originator is supposed to have been Frank Wilson, onetime Sioux City newshawk, Liberty Loan propagandist and now a chicken-raiser at Pawling...
...born who was destined to become one of America's greatest literary figures, called Washington Irving. He was one of the most versatile figures in the country's literature. An ambassador to Spain, a biographer of Mohamet, of Washington, an essayist of some eminence, a lawyer of none, the coiner of the phrase, "the almighty dollar," all these things he was. For delicacy and precision of style he has few superiors in America. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Alhambra" show a grace and beauty that is carefully wrought, while "A History Of New York" is full of deft...
John Armstrong Chaloner, ne Chanler, modern Maecenas, coiner of the famed phrase "Who's looney now?"* has figured more or less steadily in the public press for the past six years. Adjudged insane some 20 years ago, he spent some time in enforced residence at Bloomingdale Asylum (New York State), whence he escaped finally to Virginia, his home. A piquant touch was added by the fact that while he was legally sane in the State of Virginia, he was legally insane in the State of New York, where, undaunted, he was carrying on libel suits against various Manhattan newspapers...
...sixth of the series of conferences on "A Training Course for Workers with Immigrants," offered by the Department of University Extension, the State Board of Education, and the Old South Association, at the Old South Meeting House, coiner of Washington and Milk streets, Boston, will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The speakers will be Joseph Lee '83, president of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, who will talk on "Education Through Recreation," and H. H. Wheaton, specialist in Immigrant Education, United States Bureau of Education, who will speak on "Standards and Methods in the Education...