Word: dewolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aristocratic Philadelphia suburb of Germantown last week went Mr. Justice Owen Josephus Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court, Presiding Bishop James DeWolf Perry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, and hundreds of their oldtime schoolmates at Germantown Academy. All one afternoon Germantown's "old boys" sat on the school grounds, watched a pageant of the Academy's 175-year history. Rightly they felt it a rare thing for a U. S. school to reach...
Memorial Drive from DeWolf Street to Mt. Auburn Street between the hours of 1.00 and 2.15 o'clock and 3.45 and 5.30 o'clock...
...thought the time had come for the Protestant Episcopal Church, like the Church of England, to have a permanent head, with the title of archbishop. He hopes the General Convention at Atlantic City next October will confer that honor upon the Church's present Presiding Bishop, pontifical James DeWolf Perry. Wrote Rector Fleming...
Birthdays. DeWolf Hopper, 76; Dr. Francis Horace Vizetelly, lexicographer, 70; Governor Herbert Lehman of New York, 56; Man o' War, famed race and stud horse...
Died. Frank Jenners Wilstach, 63, censor of U. S. cinemadvertising & publicity, wit, bibliophile, author, compiler of similes, sometime business manager of DeWolf Hopper, Sothern & Marlowe. Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham; of influenza; in Manhattan. His famed Dictionary of Similes sprang out of his disgust for the phrase, "The news spread like wildfire." "Wildfire," he fumed, "is a disease of sheep. It is also a bolt of sheet lightning. I'm going to end this...