Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grain merchant who had emigrated from Prague in 1848, Louis Brandeis went to Harvard Law School in 1875, in time to hear, at the house of a professor, a paper on education, read in a quavering old man's voice, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. After his graduation, the firm he started with his Classmate Sam Warren prospered brilliantly. By the time he was married at 34 to Alice Goldmark, whose father, a political exile from Vienna, had emigrated in 1848, Louis Brandeis was both mature and financially secure enough to manifest the social consciousness that has since been...
...King George V: "My Government's foreign policy will as heretofore be based on firm support of the League of Nations...
...wash drawings. La Blanchisseuse and most of the other paintings were done on wood. Messrs. Rosen and Marceau discovered that each of the X-rayed wood panels had been scratched over as if by a fine-toothed saw, producing a texture like that of woven fabric. This gave a firm grip to the ground of gesso (whiting and glue) on which the paintings were made. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, this appeared to be a characteristic and unique practice of Daumier...
These are from the collections of Philip Hofer, of New York City; Mr. Charles B. Hayt, of Cambridge; Dr. Benjamin Rowland, Harvard; the University Museum, Philadelphia; and particularly the firm of Dikran Kelekian, as well as those of Kirkor Minassian, H. Kevorkian, and Parish-Watson, New York...
...have spent a morning dragging people out of one of the Southern's numerous pre-War wrecks, and then gone home that evening to have his own broken collarbone set with no other analgesic than a glass of whiskey. It is also typical that he is a firm believer in all Americanisms save the New Deal, 32° Mason and an absolute sucker for any child...