Word: griscom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the new appointments at the Museum are: Ludlow Griscom, A.M., formerly with the American Museum of National History, research collector in zoology; Frederic H. Kennard '08, and Arthur C. Bent '89, associates in ornithology; Henry C. Stetson '23, A.M. '26, assistant curator of paleontology...
...Hudson Dusters were a well-knit gang of gunmen and thieves who infested the west front of Manhattan, near Tenth Avenue. Such devilry was constantly sizzling and boiling up here, that the neighborhood became known as "Hell's Kitchen." In this lurid milieu, Playwrights John McGowan and Lloyd Griscom elected to set their play, although, as subsequently developed, they might as logically have fixed upon the Bronx...
They got a long knife and the fire tongs. Taking the empty ale bottles with them, they lurched out to the foyer, overturning tables as they went, bashing at lamps and pictures, slashing at hangings. Before two pastels of blonde young ladies-Mrs. Olga Griscom and the Princess Anita Lobkowicz, Mr. Lihme's daughters-they swayed, squinting. They swung their weapons, ruined the faces, lurched on to greater havoc, Mr. Healy pausing only to exercise his muscle further on another chandelier...
...NOMINEES STOOD President John Tudor 1137 Winslow Carlton 1280 C. McK. Norton 1287 E. G. Manchester 1782 H. H. Cutter 2001 Vice-President F. A. Clark 1204 David Guarnaccia 1390 A. G. Churchill 1460 T. G. Moore 1606 Secretary-Treasurer. James Lawrence, Jr. 1367 B. W. Griscom 1465 W. S. Youngman 1505 Thomas McGovern 1958 L. M. Shapiro...
Bronson Winthrop Griscom of Syosset, New York...