Word: haling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henderson and Aldrich were the last survivors of a critical age rich and already remote. They moved freely and importantly in the world of Henry Edward Krehbiel. Philip Hale, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Theophilus Finck. Patti was more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...
Philip Nolan was a shady horse dealer from Louisiana who was shot in 1801 by the Spaniards he had cheated. Edward Everett Hale was a Boston minister who helped whip up Union sentiment during the Civil War. When politicians like Clement Vallandigham of Ohio began to recommend separatism, Dr. Hale wrote The Man Without a Country as an object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest...
...Harvard Law School classroom a student asked Professor Warren A. Seavey if he did not believe that Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson would have soon been defeated had Chicago newspapers fearlessly exposed his tarnished regime. Replied Professor Seavey: "Well, everybody knows about Curley, and yet I'm afraid he's going to be elected Mayor of Boston next fall." Seated in the back of the room was first-year Law Student Leo Francis Curley, who after class approached Professor Seavey, received an immediate apology for the slur. Announced Massachusetts' onetime Democratic Governor...
...Trainer Conway, last week's victory was the reward of an extraordinary campaign of which the purpose was not so much to turn War Admiral into the best race horse in the U. S. as to turn him into a horse healthy and hale enough to race at all. As a two-year-old, War Admiral last year won three races, finished second twice, third once. Offsetting his speed and good blood he had one dangerous defect: he was delicate. Last winter, instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size...
...Hale and spry at 68, President Neilson walks to his office in the morning, works until one o'clock with ten minutes off for milk and crackers, works all afternoon- sometimes so long that his wife appears to coax him home. He keeps close watch on everything at Smith and as much as possible on the world outside. While Dr. Neilson is far from satisfied with education as it is, youngsters like Chicago's Hutchins who harbor elaborate and drastic schemes for reforming it, he considers "naÏve." Chief extracurricular activity in recent years has been...