Word: dean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After summarizing his two previous lectures in which he pointed out that the prosperity of the West had been due to the increase of the increment value of land, the dean of American newspapermen described the plight they were new in with the reckless era of expansion definitely concluded...
...clamor of chapel and class bells. Soon student messengers rushed into their classrooms shouting: "War has been declared! Go to the chapel!" Five minutes later, as 600 excited undergraduates jammed into chapel, the organ played My Country, 'tis of Thee. To the platform marched the college dean, followed by an army officer...
...Dean Cornwell (47), learned illustration under Pyle-Pupil Harvey Dunn and about 1916 got a free hand from the late Editor Ray Long to become Red Book's (later Cosmopolitan's) pride and joy. His illustrations for such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche and Somerset Maugham were as exotically escapist as the tales themselves, and his studio became famous for its clutter of authentic props. In 1922 tall, enthusiastic, travel-loving Artist Cornwell went to London to work with Frank Brangwyn, has since incorporated that decorator's style with...
Philadelphia School. As worthy as Gibson to be called the dean of U. S. illustrators, in the opinion of many artists, is a stolid, 68-year-old Philadelphian who now lives in a white frame house and raises chickens in Gladstone, N. J. Frederic Rodrigo Gruger studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts along with Artists John Sloan and William Glackens, got into illustrating as they did, by doing newspaper work in Philadelphia. Gruger remained an illustrator. After 1899 when George Horace Lorimer became editor of the Saturday Evening Post, Gruger became the mainstay of that magazine...
...minister, Rev. Louis E. Scholl, 62. As he listened to the invocation by a Roman Catholic priest and a speech on peace and democracy by Major General John F. O'Ryan (retired), Mr. Scholl was outwardly calm. Inwardly, however, he seethed with secret resolution. When at last the dean of Seattle's Episcopal Cathedral announced that a benediction would be pronounced by the President of the Seattle Council of Churches, up jumped Mr. Scholl...