Word: dewey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nieces; Mrs. John Lawrence of Boston; Mrs. John Taylor of Philadelphia; Mrs. Williamson S. Howell, wife of the first Secretary of the U. S. Legation in Warsaw; Miss Jean Field Blair, Richmond, Va.; Miss Mary Louise Butterfield, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; Miss Elizabeth Irving Chase, Waterbury, Conn.; Miss Suzette Dewey, Chicago; Miss Helen Edwards, Cincinnati; Miss Betty Galey of London, daughter of the Director of the American University Union and Miss Joan Williams, Chicago...
...been a delicate matter to criticize a first-cousin to his own interesting opus, "Processional." To Mr. Massey goes the final bow, however, for he has not committed himself, but staged the play as he felt it should be staged, and methinks he is not far wrong. E. H. Dewey...
...present need of simpler spelling. Many of the recognized leaders in education declare it the most important problem before teachers. I will gladly send free to any reader of TIME a brief statement of Reasons and Rules which wil be convincing to the fair minded. MELVIL DEWEY...
Though phonetics is the basis of simplified spelling, the Board has gone by no means as far as one of its oldest members, Melvil Dewey of Lake Placid, N. Y., believes the movement could be carried. Mr. Dewey employs phonetics with painstaking, sometimes cryptic thoroughness. At the Lake Placid Club, of which he is President, guests are familiar with such items as the following on his bill of fare: "krem of whet," "kofe," "fryd egz," "frut," "kak," "yc krem." In a letter apropos of articles on simple spelling, Mr. Dewey once wrote: "My sugjestion wud be a first articl...
...election of the following officials : Charles H. Grandgent, President; Gano Dunn, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Henry Gallup Paine, Treasurer; Godfrey Dewey, Secretary; Irving T. Fisher, William T. Foster, David Starr Jordan, Alexander H. MacKay, Brander Matthews, William F. MacLean, Homer H. Seerley, Frank W. Taussig, Vice Presidents...