Word: firmness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard University shall be surveyed and that a complete and up to date set of prints of Harvard's property and buildings shall be made every 30 years, work has now been started at the instruction of the Maintenance Department to re-survey all of Harvard. The Boston firm of Aspinwall and Lincoln is now gathering statistics preparatory to drawing up a new set of plans for this purpose. The report...
...Imperial Army of Austria-Hungary, deceased, was a character, perhaps the most original, outspoken, best loved officer ever to wear the gold collar of a General of Division. In an army proud of its title of "the best dressed army in the world" he once telegraphed a firm of Viennese ready-made tailors...
...other hand unwanted husbands were invalided home, parents, aunts, uncles continued to live to the embarrassment of poverty-stricken heirs, and Mrs. Fazekas continued to make essence of flypaper. Business expanded. She was soon forced to engage an assistant, one Mrs. Csordas. A third member of the firm was the village barber-undertaker-coroner, Midwife Fazekas' brother...
Busybodies in neighboring villages soon spread rumors about the firm of Fazekas, Csordas & Co. The rumors crystallized. Letters containing definite particulars of numerous deaths in the village of Nagyrev were sent to local police offices, finally to the district prosecutor of Szolnok. By his orders the body of an unpopular uncle, buried twelve years, was exhumed, assayed, found to contain enough arsenic to kill a team of mules. Other exhumations followed until 22 arsenicated corpses were discovered. Only then did a pair of Hungarian gendarmes, black cock feathers in their bowler hats, march down the main street of Nagyrev...
...Teagle's maternal grandfather, Morris Clark, was first partner of John Davison Rockefeller, in the days before Mr. Rockefeller began the formation of Standard Oil. His father, John Teagle, was an early oilman. It was to drive a tank car in his father's firm (Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle) that young Walter Teagle in 1900 refused an instructorship at Cornell University, from which he had just been graduated. Then the Republic Oil Company absorbed Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle and Walter Teagle, at 23, became Republic's vice president. In 1903 he went to Standard of New Jersey, as member of its export...