Word: greeley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast, quiet, faintly musty, gewgaw-cluttered chambers of the antique, red brick Smithsonian Institution, history is put to rest-there goes good news when it dies. But last week the Institution's "new" secretary (he has been there only 14 years and is only 70), Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, made live news. The gaunt, grave, full-mustached museum man had had on his mind the matter of Samuel P. Langley v. the Wright Brothers. The world regards Wilbur and Orville Wright as the country's true airplane pioneers, but Langley, onetime Smithsonian secretary, has been the Institution...
...never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.-Horace Greeley, circa...
...events, 'throw some fire into his writings ought to throw his writings into the fire.' " Cleveland was then a mudhole of 6,000 population and six newspapers, including the Eagle-Eyed News Catcher. Editor Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came to the Plain Dealer when its "Commercial Editor," Charles Farrar Brown, started a humorous column signed "Artemus Ward." Editor Gray died at 48, torturously, of having...
...Feder's monetary views were radically opposed to those of Hitler's financial wizard, Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. In 1934 Feder was "temporarily" retired on half pay. Thereafter he pottered about with city planning...
Often it takes several years before the Genus Harvardianus sees the light and follows Horace Greeley's advice. Somewhere off in the wilds of New England lie Smith and Bennington, the one 90 miles away, the other 200. Then, just across the state border lies the third of the green field trio, Vassar, 213.5 miles from Cambridge. These three colleges are inhabited by Powers-worthy beauties and an unfortunate number of Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Williams, and Dartmouth men. Their very difficulty of attainment lends them a charm...