Word: fairfax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week a white-thatched, 72-year-old Virginia farmer named Jesse Hughes played proud host to Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Virginia's Governor Peery, Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke, other political bigwigs. Twenty-two miles out from Washington to his place in Fairfax County, they went to inaugurate with due ceremony a completely electrified farm equipped under Government auspices...
Another sensible and long-needed step has been taken by Dr. Bock and his department in the complete renovation of Freshman Hygiene. The old system with its petrified and stealthy advice to young Ulysses always savored much more of Beatrice Fairfax than Louis Pasteur, and its banishment will leave an imperceptibly small gap in Harvard scholastics...
...Fairfax Hall--Edward M. Rowe '27 of Cambridge; Director of Debating...
More notable was a pronouncement from Southern, not because of its content but because any statement from President Fairfax Harrison is so rare as to be almost historic. A scholarly, aristocratic gentleman of 65, with a name that works magic throughout the South, Mr. Harrison divides his time between his country seat at Belvoir in Virginia's Fauquier County and the Washington headquarters of his road, writes learned treatises on Roman farm management under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer." Though he has lately given up reading daily newspapers as a waste of time, President Harrison last week unbent enough...
...Singleton Copley is attributed a likeness of Washington as an elegant young Colonial of 25, an 18th Century dandy in a tightly curled peruke and lace ruff. Charles Willson Peale first pictured him as a strapping colonel of Virginia militia, utterly self-confident from hard years of surveying Lord Fairfax's estates and fighting Indians in the wilderness. Again, Peale caught him flushed with victory after the Battle of Princeton. In Gilbert Stuart's famed, unfinished Athenaeum ("dollar bill") portrait, Washington is the First President, matured with the cares of Government, his military dash gone with his teeth. To William...