Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadian navy's interest in the surgeon of the Cayuga seemed to stop right there. It shielded him from reporters who had a host of questions. It did divulge that his real name was. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., 29, of Lawrence, Mass.* That was all. Why had he posed as a doctor? "I'm as curious as everyone else is," said Commodore Kenneth Adams, "but it didn't come within the scope of the inquiry to ask him why. And so far as the navy is concerned, he is a doctor. No man without medical knowledge could...
...first settlers, who, some theorize, may have come by land bridges from the Asiatic mainland, were aboriginal Negrito pygmies. Then, 6,000 years ago, came Indonesians in boats, to push the Negritos into the interior; the Indonesians in turn were pushed back by a wave of Malays. When Ferdinand Magellan landed in 15 21 he found a people with its own written language, government by tribal law, a strict moral code, a thriving commerce. Magellan, before he was killed by tribesmen, named the place San Lazaro, but later Spain changed it to Philipinas, in honor of Prince Philip, who became...
...touch was first felt at 16, when Marx went to work for Manhattan Toymaker Ferdinand Strauss, who is credited with making mechanical toys popular in the U.S. Within a year, Marx was head of a Strauss factory. He left to become a toy seller, and soon had enough money to buy Strauss's factories and his most successful mechanical toys-"Zippo the Climbing Monkey" and the "Alabama Coon Jigger," a tap-dancing minstrel. Most competitors thought these two items were finished. Marx proved them wrong: he sold 16 million. Now he has 14 factories spread from Erie...
...farewells. Then he walked to the Mall entrance of the Pentagon to wait for his car. "Oh, you don't have a car any more," an aide reminded him. Forrestal looked perplexed. The aide called another car and sent him home, then called Forrestal's old friend Ferdinand Eberstadt, and warned him that Forrestal was "acting peculiarly...
...years of Haydn-go-seek, H. C. Robbins Landon, one of the society's founders, writes in the Saturday Review of Literature: "It is (unfortunately) more profitable today to issue a symphony on records under Haydn's name than under the correct title of [say] Johann Rasper Ferdinand Gluggl, and it was just as profitable for an 18th Century publisher to follow this same course...