Word: haled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Barrett Wendell Prize, "for the member of the Sophomore Class concentrating in the field of History and Literature who has made the most notable progress during the year" was awarded in May, 1928, to Richard Walden Hale, Jr., of Needham, from the Class...
...squat old boat on which Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and his cronies used to gather, eat fish, drink other things, discuss how to run Chicago, how to BOOST Chicago. They called it the Fish Fans' Club, because somebody caught a fish there once. Recently, the boat sprang a leak and squatted down in five feet of water. Also the club had $23,000 in debts which it was unable to meet, so it squatted down into defunction. Last week the furnishings of the club went under the hammer of Auctioneer Samuel L. Winternitz.* A picture of "Our Mayor...
...Democrats, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby of the New York World. John Tinney McCutcheon's work on the Chicago Tribune (Republican) has been, except for his "Tammany Farmers" series,* quiet and conventional. The Tribune has to be wet in Chicago and no organ in the city that gave William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to the G. O. P. can afford to go very strongly on the Tammany-corruption theme. The "Tammany Farmers" series has stressed urban ignorance and presumption rather than any sinister note. Quite as characteristic of the G. O. P. sermons which the Tribune's front page often preaches, such...
Critic Philip Hale of the Boston Herald found the first concert satisfying, wrote: "If Debussy could have heard his 'Festivals' he would have gone on the platform and, in the face of the public, embraced Mr. Koussevitzky...
...Chief Justice Taft was neither vexed nor disturbed by the talk that went around Washington, as it does every year at this time, that there is certain to be a vacancy in the Supreme Court before long. Mr. Associate Justice Holmes, oldest of all the high-benchers, looked as hale and bright-of-eye as ever at 87. Even Mr. Associate Justice Sutherland, 66, who was sick and absent so much of last year, looked...