Word: housman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thursday, May 9, 1901, a young lumber merchant from Maine named Edward Allen Pierce went to work in Wall Street as a brokers' clerk at A. A. Housman & Co. That day was historic: by noon Wall Street had been thrown into a panic by the Northern Pacific corner. Broker Pierce learned to work twelve hours a day, still does. Elected a partner in 1909, he served his firm faithfully but unspectacularly for 18 years. Then, on Jan. 1, 1927, he announced the formation of E. A. Pierce & Co. to take over the business of Housman & Co. and six brokerage...
...surgeon who left South Carolina after the carpet bag regime to teach hydrotherapy at Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, young Baruch accompanied his father to New York, graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1889. His first notable job was with A. A. Housman & Co., stockbrokers. Thereafter Baruch's business was that of making money by his wits in Wall Street. His teachers and friends were rugged individualists of famed memory: James Keene, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Henry Huddleston Rogers...
...almost a legendary figure even at Cambridge, where he has been Professor of Latin, Fellow of Trinity since 1911. Conventional, silent, learned, a recluse, he has made few and brief appearances in public. Around such academic figures there always spring up apocryphal tales. After a better-than-ordinary dinner Housman is reported to have made this speech: "Cambridge has seen some strange sights. It has seen the poet Wordsworth drunk, and the philosopher Person sober. Tonight it sees a better poet than Person and a better philosopher than Wordsworth, neither drunk nor sober, but just betwixt-and-between...
...Housman laid the foundation of his classical learning at St. John's College, Oxford, then went to London as a Higher Division Clerk in the British Patent Office. After ten years in the Civil Service he became Professor of Latin at London's University College. His first book (A Shropshire Lad, 1896) brought him a reputation, but not the one he was after. While his younger brother Laurence was turning out a stream of second-rate novels and stories, A. E. Housman was making his name feared and respected among scholars as editor of Latin poets. His magnum...
...lecture last month on The Name & Nature of Poetry in Cambridge's Senate-House, 74-year-old Scholar-Poet Housman said: "Farewell for ever. I will not say with Coleridge that I recentre my immortal mind in the deep sabbath of meek self-content; but I shall go back with relief and thankfulness to my proper...