Word: hood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have said that we are getting too learned, and in support of that statement I can assert, on the word of Tom Hood, that `the Boke Man is a Dunce in being Wise.' I call for some antidote for such learned societies as the Natural History Society, the German Club, and the French Club; for the establishment, in short, of `The ignorance Club of Harvard College.' This I do not recommend; I insist upon it as a necessity. If we do not take some step in this direction, if we calmly submit to seeing the requirements for admission slowly added...
...architects competing are: Aymar Embury 2nd: R. M. Hood; Ludlow and Peabody, with H. F. Kellogg of Boston Associated; B. W. Morris, with Eric Gugler, Associated; Egerton Swartwont, all of New York City; Hewitt & Brown of Minneapolis; Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott of Boston; Professor J. J. Haffner of the School of Architecture, with Perry, Shaw, and Hepburn, Associated, of Boston; Guy Lowell of Boston; McKim, Mead, and White of New York City; Parker, Thomas, and Rice, of Boston; and Walker and Gillette of New York City...
...spider in Little Miss Muffitt and the lupine ancestress in Little Red Riding Hood breed fear-complexes...
...Coolidge traveled to Boston accompanied by Mrs. Frank W. Stearns and guarded by Captain Adolphus Andrews,, presidential naval aid. She attended a luncheon given by Lemuel H. Murlin, President of Boston University, and later, in the new Old South Church*, was invested with the purple hood with red and white facings of a Doctor of Laws and "all the rights and privileges thereto appertaining...
...every station exemplifying the finer qualities of mind and heart we most admire in women; your own works praise you; you have gained the confidence, admiration and love of the American people . . ." Going forward, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge received in her hands a script, and upon her shoulders a purple hood faced with red and white, that proclaimed her an honorary Doctor of Laws. Dr. Coolidge smiled her thanks and returned to her chair...