Word: esq
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bearing the title, "Collegiate", the lone editorial in the current "Ladies' Home Journal" debates the question of indecency in college journalism. The editorial takes the form of a dialogue between Mr. Liberal Broad Esq. and The Retired Humorist, so that one cannot positively ascribe the views of either to the policy of the magazine. Mr. Liberal Broad puts up the trite defences used whenever the younger generation is attacked. The Retired Humorist replies a little more elaborately "the frequent actions of postal officials in forbidding these publications entry into the mails" and advocating "some wholesale expulsions" from the colleges...
...Chippendale chairs came to be sold, in the end, to the P. W. French & Co., dealers, for $15,000. Everyone was bidding now. Most of the dealers and agents sat in the back of the room, among them Frank Partridge, Esq., of London, who was rumored to be representing the King of England. He bought a suite in golden walnut and velvet, made in 1695, for $12,500; also some 1795 painted Sheraton side-seats the backs of which were covered with petit-point, and a segmental side-table of about 1780, fitted with a carved lambrequin and finished...
...Museum building is the gift of Jacob Henry Schiff, Esq., of New York. The contents were given by Mr. Schiff and a large number of other friends, living mainly in Boston and vicinity...
...Sacred to the memory of Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., who, unaided by birth or powerful connections, but blessed with a noble and virtuous mind, arrived to the highest station in government. His patriotism and firmness during fifty years' employment in public life, and particularly in the very important part he acted in the American Revolution, as Governor of Connecticut, the faithful page of History will record...
...gold watch-chain; he wore a suit of black with lace at the wrist and collar; once a week he walked, Bible in hand, through the streets to church. In the graveyard above the town was a tombstone which he had erected to the memory of one Richard Parton, Esq., his FORMER ASSOCIATE IN VENTURE OF TRADING, LOST...