Word: descents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hadley, Edwin Marshall--b. Peoria, Ill. Oct. 14, 1872, eighth in lineal descent from Edward Fitz Randolph, from Nottinghamshire to N. E. 1630. With others organized the Dudley Coffee Co. (importers) and the Ceylon Planters Tea Co. (and many others) One of organizers Ill. Reserve Militia. Chicago Boy Scout Committeeman. Winner many athletic trophies. Contbr, to mags., orator, after dinner speaker. Republican. Reformed Episcopalian...
...Scribner's, Harper's, Century) employed a group of U. S. wood-block engravers of unmatched dexterity. They copied oil paintings, photographs, etchings, drawings. To the day of his death gaunt irascible Joseph Pennell urged their recognition by serious art critics. Most of them were of German descent. Timothy Cole, ablest, best-known, was British-born...
...litter of trinkets, statuets, posters, portraits, folders, busts, pitchers, seals, plaques, gewgaws, jim-cracks and other Washingtonian bric-a-brac, he would have found Sol Bloom of Manhattan, associate director of the nationwide celebration. Commissioner Bloom is a small, round-faced 61-year-old Jew of Polish descent who was born in Illinois, raised in San Francisco and introduced to U. S. politics in 1923 when Tammany Hall, knowing him as a successful music publisher, ran him for Congress...
Some Speakers have put up a good fight, have actually been dragged scuffling and kicking to the exalted Chair. But Captain Fitzroy is of the blood royal, proud of his bastard descent from a Stuart King. When Sir George and Mr. Thorne made as though to lay hands on him, Speaker Fitzroy waved them back once, then walked between them while the whole House cheered to his presiding seat. From under the Speaker's Table, Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel produced the mighty, gleaming Mace and laid it thereon. Right glad was Sir Colin, who failed to prevent...
Books, as Francis Bacon might have remarked, are made for classical immortality, ephemeral existence culminating in tired waiting on the 98 cent stand in countless drug store emporiums, or immediate descent into oblivion and the macerating machine. Ernest Hemingway has escaped the latter fate, clearly; his readers of today are those who will decide whether he is to go down through the ages in the blurry print and sedate bindings of Everyman's edition. And this morning the Vagabond will also rise to present his luminous countenance before Dr. Carpenter in Sever 7, where the creater of tired young...