Word: durant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Popular books on academic subjects, written specifically for the layman, are about as well worth while as are any books. However, such books as these have little place in the rightful consideration of the press of a large university. It is remarkable and praiseworthy that Will Durant has been able to interest and instruct so many tens of thousands in his "Story of Philosophy." No one will deny that he has done something worth while on a great scale. But what he, and many other writers to be placed in his general category, has done is something quite outside...
...Fugitive, Thomas W. Durant's six-year-old chestnut gelding, cleverly ridden by Randolph Duffey: the 4th running of the Meadow Brook Cup steeplechase; when Alligator, coming up fast, fell and unseated his jockey at the next to last fence; at Old Westbury...
...South Carolina the issue was: "Shall Cole Blease stay home?" The renomination of Ellison DuRant ("Ipso Facto") Smith, Senator for 24 years, was an emphatic YES. Beaten twice straight for the Senate, blatant and erratic Coleman Livingston Blease was considered to have reached the end of his political career...
...Donald Durant...
...strange new political brew. The South Carolina delegation last week startled the Democratic Convention by voting for Repeal. In August, South Carolina will hold a Democratic primary for the Senate nomination at which the electorate will have its first real chance to vote Wet or Dry. Senator Ellison Durant Smith, a personal Dry stumping for renomination, stands shyly by the Chicago convention's plank. Ashton H. Williams of Florence is aggressively championing Repeal. Leon Harris of Anderson keeps mum on liquor. Coleman Livingston Blease, a Wet-drinking Dry trying to get back into the Senate, declares: "My people voted...