Word: greenleaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrew Eliot Samuel Eliot | Samuel Eliot Samuel Eliot | | Wm. Greenleaf Eliot Samuel Eliot | Wm. Greenleaf E. Jr Pres. Chas. Wm. Eliot | Henry Ware Eliot | Thomas Stearns Eliot...
...GREENLEAF Madison...
Died. Ralph Greenleaf, 50, dapper, 16-time world champion of pocket billiards; of bronchial pneumonia; in Philadelphia. Greenleaf, who did for pool what Babe Ruth did for baseball, set an official world's record in 1929 of 126 balls without a miss, once, in an exhibition match, pocketed 269 straight balls...
...Eliots were New Englanders: they had come to Massachusetts around 1670 from East Coker, Somerset. T. S. Eliot's grandfather moved from Boston to St. Louis, founded the city's first Unitarian Church, as well as Washington University. The Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot could be a stern shepherd; one of his more memorable sermons was entitled: "Suffering Considered as Discipline." But young Tom Eliot's Irish Catholic nurse considered Unitarianism too thin a spiritual cloak against the cold winds of the world; she liked to take him along to her own church, a block away from...