Word: dressere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Club ties fringe his pictured dresser...
This year's course is one of a long line of lecture courses offered to the people of Cambridge through the generosity of Thomas Dowse, leather-dresser and book-collector of Cambridgeport, who years ago bequeathed to the City of Cambridge a fund the income of which was to be spent each year in providing one or more courses of lectures of highest character on literary and scientific subjects. Notable among the names of former Dowse lecturers are those of Edward Everett, 1811, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1821, Charles Sumner, 1830, Wendell Phillips, 1831. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1864, and Henry Ward...
Thomas Dowse was proprietor of a "wool-puller's" or leather dresser's shop in Cambridgeport, where he lived and worked until his death at the age of eighty-four...
Arnold Daly, actor, died last week in Manhattan. His life was brilliant and formless, his death terrible, grotesque and blurred. He began as an office boy for Charles Frohman. He became dresser for John Drew. Leaving Mr. Drew, he said that he would become an actor-not only an actor, a better actor than John Drew. He appeared with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson...
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