Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Harry Elmer Barnes has delivered another ultimatum to the world. Defying his critics to "scare him away," the expounder of historical sociology at Smith College serves notice that although of course he did not mean to begin a controversy in his recent address before the scientific congress he will now light to the finish. Then in a delicate touch the professor remarks that if his opponents had only kept quiet there would have been no public discussion of the question. But of course if they do take notice of him. Dr. Barnes will "raise the ante and stay...
...Able Elmer Rice wrote the play and directed it. The single setting of the Manhattan home ? once drearily respectable, now only dreary ? is by Jo Meilziner...
Brisk and dapper in his striped suit, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes paused a moment deep in thought, as the New York train pulled in at Northampton, Mass., station. Had he remembered to pack: 1) his purple socks? 2) his lemon-yellow shoes? 3) elegant ties, in hues and number sufficient? And had he packed too, in his mind, plenty of his bright, daring, fetching, original phrases, enough to give the solemn old boys a jolt...
When the new Life came out the full extent of the casualties was seen. The editorial page heretofore conducted by Elmer Davis was gone; it will not be revived for anyone else...
After all, who did kill Goliath? Elmer Davis, letting his imagination zoom, said in his novel Giant Killer that it was not David, but his sturdy nephew Joab. Stumbling on the huge carcass, David made bold to slice off the head and stagger back with it to camp, claiming a victory that...