Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwin Russell, a prominent citizen of New Hyde Park, N. Y.* (pop.: 3,314) last week announced that a local library club had voted 13-to-2 to boycott Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book, Listen! The Wind! "I objected," ejaculated Mr. Russell, "to the purchase of this book, and as an American citizen refuse to be a partner to any operation that means royalty or profit to Mr. & Mrs. Lindbergh in the light of the recent publicity they have...
...years the great Edwin Booth was fired with the idea of establishing a club primarily but not entirely for actors. In the summer of 1887, with fellow-members of a yachting party, he got down to serious planning. During the next year Booth purchased a Manhattan house at 16 Gramercy Park, engaged Stanford White to remodel it, collected 46 charter members, and on the last night of the year, as first president of The Players, handed over the deed of No. 16 to Augustin Daly, the first vice-president. Next day Booth moved in, and for the five remaining years...
...powerful minority. Only dramatic critics are excluded by rule-to avoid the possible embarrassment of having them run into actors they have panned. The long list of celebrated members includes Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Sir Henry Irving, the elder J. P. Morgan, Elihu Root, John Singer Sargent (whose Edwin Booth hangs in the club), George Bellows, John Philip Sousa, Richard Mansfield, and the club's three Presidents who followed Booth-Joseph Jefferson, John Drew and Walter Hampden...
...Robert Hooke's ghost had been in Richmond last week it would have heard something very gratifying. Edwin Grant Conklin, Princeton's famed biologist, declared that it was a mistake to attribute the origin of the biological cell theory, whose centenary is being observed in scientific circles, to two Germans, Schleiden and Swann. "Their theory," said Dr. Conklin, "was a special and in important respects an erroneous one. There is no present biological interest in their theory. . . . Cells were first seen, named, described and figured by Robert Hooke ... 170 years before the work of Schleiden and Swann. Hooke...
...Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime chairman of the National City Bank, who four years ago started over again at the bottom and is now chairman of Blyth & Co., last week settled (for an unrevealed sum) the Government's tax claim of $1,384,222 against...