Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel before she is 18 years old, I don't know what I shall do." Thus the mother of Brooklyn's prodigious 12-year-old. whose poetic flights since the age of nine (The Janitor's Boy, Lava Lane)) have floored the pundits, made good Poet Erwin Markham grumble into his beard (TIME, Nov. 23, MISCELLANY) and won her an invitation to join the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers (Poet Thomas Hardy, President), the first invitation to any American since that other, rubicund Brooklynite, Walt Whitman...
...Erwin C. Conant is a well-built, middle-aged citizen of Massachusetts, having residence in a suburb of Boston. His hair is greying. He has had to adopt spectacles. He likes work and he likes peace. Lately he was called to serve on a jury that was to decide whether or not the Mayor of Chelsea, Mass., and 13 others were guilty of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Unlike many citizens Mr. Conant did not wiggle out of his manifest duty. He was impaneled with eleven others, who elected him their foreman. For six weeks the trial continued...
...tell you why it didn't go, but why ask me to remember what scores of witnesses have said over a period of six weeks? There may be a man in the United States who can remember what all those witnesses said, but that man is not Erwin C. Conant...
...master or mistress aboard. Instead there were Edward T. Clark, the President's private secretary; Ellen Peck, secretary to Mr. Clark; Mrs. Clark; E. W. Smithers, the White House telegraphist; Pat McKenna, Cerberus of the White House office, friend of all dignitaries for the last 20 years; Erwin Geisser, the President's stenographer; Katherine Gwynn, Mrs. Coolidge's maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul Pry (the report that Paul Pry, grown vicious, was about...
...Coady '27, end 21 195 6.01 L. F. Daley '27, line 22 190 6.00 E. S. Daniell '26, guard 19 189 5.10 J. R. Dean '27, end 19 177 6.00 H. T. Dunker '25, guard 21 190 6.01 E. F. Gamache '27, center 19 160 5.11 Erwin Gehrke '25, back 26 190 6.00 M. W. Greenough '25, tackle 20 187 6.02 Nathaniel Hamlen '27, quarterback 18 155 5.06 J. W. Hammond '25, back 22 185 5.11 J. R. Harrison '27, tackle 20 188 6.03 W. T. Heagney, back 24 163 5.11 J. D. Hitch...