Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Melchett was raised to the peerage last May as a recognition of his contributions to British industry. Sir Alfred was the Minister of Health in the MacDonald Labor ministry and is a fellow of the Royal Society. He is the President of the giant corporation known as the Imperial Chemical Industries. In addition to speaking at Harvard, he will talk to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and will be entertained at a private affair in his honor, during his stay in Boston and Cambridge...
...fellow Vermonters...
...Some would imitate not Oscar Wilde but Alcibiades who sliced the noses off of the gods before he sailed to war, in Sicily, across a stormy sea. They might share Plato's dream of a fair, impossible republic and they might share too his memory of Socrates, a strange fellow who was continually talking and who, before he drank poison bravely, looked out of the windows of his jail at the hills of Athens...
...look at a Gothic building without a romanticizing ophthalmia, harder still to consider a Gothic personage. Francois Villon is generally conceived to have been a frisking, lyrical scapegrace, much in the manner of John Barrymore's cinema portrayal of The Beloved Rogue, an essentially harmless, buoyant, inspired fellow.* The just biographer must be proof against the delusive magic of medieval names and picaresque histories...
Osborne Wood, son of the late Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, once made and lost a tidy fortune in Wall Street, has recently been working in an iron mine near Pecos, N. Mex. Last week he quit when a fellow workman was killed. Said he: "I have found all iron ore mines I have visited in New Mexico unsafe. There is a law regulating coal mine safety, but none relating to iron ore mines. I am going to do everything possible to get proper legislative measures in New Mexico to compel mine owners to safeguard employes...