Word: corbetts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corbett...
...suite in the Hotel McAlpin. He adopted two Chinese boys, one of whom became his personal ringside and diamondside reporter. Many a drawing made in Great Neck he signed: "Tad, Moscow" or "Tad, Shanghai." His home stood between those of two of his numberless friends, Fisticuffer James J. Corbett, retired, and Funnyman Ring W. Lardner...
Manhattan Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett was Exposition Chairman. He is 55, small, white-haired, a native Californian. Both his father and mother were physicians. After being graduated from the University of California as a Mechanical Engineer, he studied Architecture at the Paris Beaux Arts and took medals in architecture, mathematics, modeling, free-hand drawing. He was the first foreign member of the London Architecture Club. In 1912 he formed a partnership with Frank J. Helmle of New York...
...Helmle & Corbett have raised spires and pediments throughout the East. Most famed is the tan, delicately Gothicized tower of their Bush Terminal office building in Manhattan. In London they thrust up the robust U. S. contours of Bush House among the fragile graces of Christopher Wrenn and Inigo Jones. In Alexandria, Va., they are now building the George Washington Masonic National Memorial...
HARVARD MAINE Bassett, c.f. c.f., Lathrop Nugent, 2b. 2b., Wescott McGrath, s.s. c., Wells Donaghy, 3b. 1b., Hammond Prier; 1b. s.s., Plummer Ticknor, l.f. r.f., Corbett Gilligan or Todd, r.f. l.f., Airoldi Dudley or Batchelder, c. 3b., True Ketchum or MacHale, p.p., Perkins, Foster, Bangs...