Word: cyruses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...parent company, Cyrus Hall McCormick is Chairman of the Board of Directors, Harold Fowler McCormick, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Alexander Legge, President...
...Cyrus Hall McCormick used to go with his father, Robert, into a log hut on their Virginia farm and the two would work secretly for hours. The father was a Scotch-Irishman, quick with his hands. He had invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country. He often stood pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father...
...masterly if copy could be prepared for the Saturday Evening Post showing Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis in part of an extensive wardrobe designed and cut by Messrs. Hart, Schaffner & Marx; or for the Cosmopolitan, Town and Country, Hearst's International, etc., etc., to depict Mrs. William Randolph Hearst fitted and satisfied with Shur-On eyeglasses...
...wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain dream of a Hellas united at least in spirit. The reward of all his tribulations is only fairy gold, but the story of his life is a romance, an historical romance in which the writer has the good sense...
...birth. A dozen European races mingled to produce her, and she was born in San Antonio, Tex. Thence her path has been paved with incidents, even to the prospect of pronouncing upon her divorced husband's orchestral reading as he leads an orchestra to which her present employer, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, and his son-in-law, Edward W. Bok, have been the chief lay contributors...