Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elephant wrecked. For 20 months the wreckage lay where it fell, untouched. Only a stout heart would dare to attempt the labor of "repairing" the débris, least of all undertake to reconstruct the House in five scant months. That heart was the heart of Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week Mr. Fletcher might well have doubted whether courage or folly had moved his heart...
...Carr, Bease, l.g. r.g., Armstrong, Robinson Mautner, Hazell, c. c., Greeley, Little, Foley Robinson, Curran, Culliton, r.g. l.g., Kidder, Newton, Jones Shields, r.t. l.t., Giles, Prout Donovan, r.e. l.e., Sullivan, Gaffney, Knapp Bartolomeo, Hurley, q.b. q.b., Pedrick, Owen, Waldinger Gallogly, l.h.b. r.h.b., Brown, Fuller Gatreau, Villorauer, r.h.b. l.h.b., Wesner, Fletcher Tassinari, Jobert, f.b. f.b., Brookings, Higgins, Hoye...
...Meehan Greeley, Foley, Kernan, c. l.g., Bliss Greeley, Foley, Kernan, c. c., Lavache Jones, Robinson, l.g. r.g., Ronzio Carman, Giles, l.t. r.t., Opp Berry, Olney, Brassil, l.e. r.e., Troup Pedrick, Waldinger, Owen, q.b. q.b., Rock Fuller, Garvin, MacFarlane, r.h.b. l.h.b., Gillott Higgins, Wesner, Weeks, l.h.b. r.r.b., DiCicco Fletcher, Brown, Reggio, f.b. f.b., Hintea...
Other notable items on display are: copies of the second, third and fourth editions of the folio, with the fourth edition in its original binding; a folio edition, 1647, of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, a volume belonging originally to the Earl of Bridgewater, elder brother to Milton's Comus; a copy of a 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Poems in the original calf binding; a 1577 edition of Hollinshed's Chronicles, opened to a woodcut of the meeting between Macbeth and Banquo and the three witches; and the first collected edition of Jonson's Discoveries with attention drawn...
...outlive their usefulness and have to be replaced. Mr. Willard, now 73, does not call as often as he once did at the White House. President Roosevelt does his railroad talking now with men like Carl Gray of Union Pacific and Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman. Lawyer-Lobbyist Robert Virgil Fletcher of the Association of Railway Executives has so far failed to draw any aces from the New Deal for his employers. Therefore the carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would be authorized...