Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Dangerfield, for his The Era of Good Feelings, a history of the presidential administrations of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, from 1817 to 1829. C| David J. Mays, lawyer and historian, for his two-volume biography, Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803, a Virginia judge, statesman and political leader...
...Hartford carries on Gallaudet's work. But in spite of hearing aids and microphones, teaching the deaf is still a slow and laborious process. There are still too few teachers and too few schools. The work that Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet began, says the American School's Principal Edmund Boatner, is still far from accomplished: "It does seem too bad to see how often a deaf child is left out in the cold...
Beyond his duty to keep counterfeiters in check, U. E. (for Urbanus Edmund) Baughman, chief of the Secret Service, is also responsible for the personal safety of the President. Last week Baughman gave the Senate Appropriations Committee a guardsman's view of the Chief Executive's job. The President, he said, "cannot have what is considered a normal life, home or family relationship. He has no choice as to where he lives. He is a focal point for public and world attention. He is a slave to his office, being obliged to serve his country without cease...
Winthrop House residents and Radcliffe students will sing and dance the parts. Edmund P. Allison 4G will be conductor...
They appear in The Vagrant Mood, a slim volume of urbane table talk ranging from the decline of the detective story to Immanuel Kant's theory of beauty, from Edmund Burke's literary style to a profile of an eccentric 10th century English snob named Augustus Hare. Proof that the "Old Party's" writing hand has lost none of its cunning is the fact that he can make such unlikely subjects just as likeable reading as his personal memories of Novelists Henry James and H. G. Wells, which he tucks into the same book...