Word: counsellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fred Stone, famed comedian: "I wrote a letter to my cousin Melville E. Stone, general counsellor of the Associated Press. Said I: 'For several weeks the thought uppermost in my mind has been the fortunate circumstance that we had in the Vice Presidency at the time of the death of President Harding a man of Presidential caliber. . . . Since I last saw you the Dawes report has been made public. ... It seems to me that the plan which General Dawes has worked out will bring stability and peace to Europe and an era of sound prosperity to this country...
...prime movers in effecting the present settlement of the vexatious Irish question. For this act he has been both reviled and admired. Lord Birkenhead's legal career started at Gray's Inn, of which legal establishment he is now a Bencher. He became a King's Counsellor, or to use legal phraseology, he took silk, in 1908. In 1915 he became Solicitor General and in the same year was appointed Attorney General, a post which he held until 1919, when he was appointed to the Woolsack in the House of Lords as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. This...
...losing his popularity. He carried with him into the office the sympathy and friendly understanding which have made him the best of guides; he established for the University, and as an example for all American colleges the ideal that a dean is not a mere disciplinary officer but a counsellor and friend. The personal element which he introduced has been continued by those who have succeeded him as Dean of Harvard College, and the creation of assistant deans for each class extended it even farther...
...these are not enough; the demand is increasing and to satisfy it the populace must choose their idols. One palladium of morality recently elected as the greatest man of all time our friend and counsellor, Thomas Edison. Of greater Harvard interest are his runners-up; Roosevelt, Shakespeare, and Longfellow. After them in the order named, come the others of the first ten: King Alfred, Tennyson, Hoover, Dickens, Lloyd George, and Andrew D. Volstead. A notable collection truly! But where are Lincoln, Washington, Napoleon, Harding, and a few others? No matter, all deficiences are made up by the two Harvard...
...arrived in Chita, Peru, our preliminary base, on September 13. Our company consisted of the following members: Senor Alvarotez, professor of Archaeology at Nueva Barcelona, our leader and supervisor, "guide, counsellor, and friend"; Don Calvo, as geologist, (Whose work in stratifying the cliffs of the Anacondian Peninsula has made him world-famous); Dr. Bonaparte (exchange professor from the Sorbonne) who serves as osteologist and physician; Leon Cavallo, our chief topographer; two assistant topographers; and myself, who am to act as historian and representative of the American government...