Word: horatio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five businessmen last week were designated the most notable Horatio Alger heroes in the U.S. This distinction-with a scroll-was conferred upon them by the American Schools and Colleges Association, which polled 800 U.S. educational institutions to determine which businessmen "best symbolize the traditional Horatio Alger career." Actually, only two of the winners had come up from rags to riches. They were General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, onetime $4-a-week shipping clerk, and I. J. Fox, who ran one fur coat into the largest U.S. fur chain. The rags of the other Alger boys had been...
...gives a performance which is remarkable for its interpretation of a difficult role; Henry Edwards keeps up a distinctly superior standard as the unsympathetic Claudius; and Miles Mallcson, as Polonius, steals every scene in which he appears. Other lesser roles are well filled, too, with only Philip Foster as Horatio and Nelson Leigh as the Ghost declining toward the mediocre...
Thirteen years later, another British army, under General Horatio Herbert Kitchener (thenceforth known as K of K, Kitchener of Khartoum), set out to avenge Gordon. As the dervishes tried to cut their way out in a ferocious surge known as the Battle of Omdurman, a young cavalry officer named Winston Churchill got in the way, nearly lost his life. Dervish power was smashed...
...York Times music critic Downes will be chairman at the final meetings, at which Otto Kinkeldy, Horatio Appleton Lamb, Visiting Lecturer at the University, and Paul Lang, editor of "Musical Quarterly' and professor of Music at Columbia University, will speak...
...says, he was born "in a room above a quiet corner saloon." As a boy he read avidly-and saved his books until he had enough to start a lending library. ("Now," says Ted, "I never read books. I read myself out as a child. I started with Horatio Alger and went right through the Rover Boys.") And as a boy he got the idea that he would like to be a professional talker. "I dreamed about my name on an office door," he recalls. "Ted Husing, Commentator." After batting around in a dozen jobs, from carnival shill to real...