Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Russia on Christmas Day 48 years ago, Soyer came to the U.S. at twelve, left high school after his sophomore year to work and study painting at night. Like his less well-known brothers Moses and Isaac Soyer, who also paint, Raphael grew up with the notion of painting what he knew as skillfully and unpretentiously as he knew how. Last week's show was his first in five years, and for it he had painted 23 new oils...
Churchill had a better argument for the university constituencies: "They dignify and widen the whole course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...
...morning last week Isaac Hull, fisherman turned boardinghouse keeper, was up & about. It was bitter cold (6°), and he needed an early start at his fire-making. His Hull Home, in downtown St. John's, was jampacked with 70 boarders, most of them government-supported poor, aged or infirm, awaiting admission to public institutions. Proprietor Hull lit the kitchen oil range, then bustled next door to light another in the annex. By the time he was ready to leave the annex, the 15-year-old main building, where he had started the first fire, was doomed. Flames, apparently...
...aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...
Died. Sir Isaac Isaacs, 92, first native-born Governor General of a British Dominion (Australia, 1931-36); in Melbourne. Isaacs found himself a storm center in Empire affairs when he was nominated; "a man the King has never seen," he was approved only at the insistence of Prime Minister James Henry Scullin and the Australian people...