Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toasts drunk. On the contrary, this aged onetime University President passed the day reading, studying, strolling in the morning sunshine, answering his correspondence. Once the intimate friend of Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Aldrich, Longfellow, he can still read with ease and operate a typewriter. In 1874, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, then working to perfect the tele phone, was a member of his faculty. This old man is Dr. William Fairfield Warren, President Emeritus of Boston University...
...annual dinner in honor of the Supreme Court took place last week at the White House. Guests other than the Justices and their wives were Attorney General Stone and?designate Warren, Solicitor General Beck and their wives, Representative Graham (Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee), ex-Governor and Mrs. Sproul of Pennsylvania; Princess Cantacuzene, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow of Manhattan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...
...Glenn Curtiss who designed the motor of U. S. dirigible No. 1 and assisted Captain Thomas Baldwin in trial tests. In 1907, Glenn Curtiss collaborated with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (telephone man) in the work of the Aerial Experiment Association, as motor expert and director of experiments. His June Bug, designed and built in 1907, received The Scientific American's trophy of 1908. He won the Gordon-Bennett speed trophy at Rheims, France, in 1909; and, in 1910, was recipient of The New York World's $10,000 prize for a flight from Albany to Manhattan...
Uncle Shiras Graham, general octogenarian reprobate, whose life was saddened when he bought his way out of the Civil War draft, dies after the heartbreaking discovery that $50,000,000 could not all be profitably used in the interests of monkey glands...
John, setting the Graham inferior maxillary against blackmailers' threats, is saved from ruin by Rhoda, who at last concedes that he has done his best against the dragon of his riches. Incidentally, she has found that the labor workers, her ex-associates, are not as disinterested as they look. John and Rhoda find new strength for the battle of society on the shores of the Central Park reservoir at sunrise...