Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salary and $18,000 expenses for cold-eyed President Jouett Shouse. Biggest single item of income: a $79,750 "loan" from Irenee du Pont. League lenders in the $10,000 class included Lammot, Pierre, S. Hallock and William du Pont, John J. Raskob, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Ernest T. Weir, Joseph E. Widener, all good haters of the New Deal. In the $5,000 class were Phillips Petroleum Co. and Edward F. ("Let's Gang Up") Hutton...
...Ernest Cudlipp, vicar of a poor chapel belonging to a rich Manhattan parish, was small, middleaged, energetic, untidy, conservative in belief, liberal in practice. He smoked too many cigarets, was always late because he tried to do too much. Celibate by inclination and experience, he had a poor stomach but liked a good glass of wine. He was no Buchmanite. "What adult could accept as real and true that fairy-tale world in which their Dutch baronesses, Master of Fox Hounds and formerly intemperate butlers all walked laughing and prattling, the children of light, and the children...
When brilliant Carl Willever, who had just been expelled from his High Church monastery because of homosexual practices, came to him for shelter, Ernest feared it might well cost him his job. After a run-in with his rector, he knew it would, unless he told Carl to go. After a short, sharp tussle he did the sensible thing, went on with his never-ending round of telephone calls, taxis, cigarets, his headlong, good-humored but uncompromising fight against sinful muddle...
...series of lectures on Nuclear Physics delivered by Ernest O., Lawrence will continue tomorrow afternoon in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory at 4.00 o'clock...
...Ernest O. Lawrence, professor of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley, delivered the first of a series of five lectures on "Nuclear Physics" in the Main Lecture Hall of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon...