Word: jay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Groton, 17; Ninety-Eight, 14.The 'freshman eleven was defeated jay Groton School on Saturday after a close game. Ninety-eight...
...reached by self-service but by self-sacrifice. Success does not consist of so much power or so much wealth. Alexander listened to the tempter's voice and died in a drunken bout at thirty-three. It brought Caesar the assassin's knife, and gave Napoleon St. Helena. Jay Gould died hating the whole world and hated...
...Jay Gould has given $25,000 to the University of the City of New York...
...birds about 110 are Oscines. This means only that their vocal organs are of the same kind as the true singers' - it does not follow that they can all sing, and there are many that cannot, as the crow and the blue jay, while there are several sweet singers among the non-oscines. We have about 40 good singers. English critics say that our bird chorus is not to be compared with their own. It may be true that there is no one American songster like the skylark, but England can show only 23 song birds to our forty...
...Pellow was the eldest son of Henry E. Pellow, who is a cousin of Viscount Exmouth and brother-in-law, as well as cousin, of the present Viscount Sidmouth. His mother was a sister of John Jay. He was born in England in 1860, and was educated in this country, first at St. Paul's School, Concord, and later at Cambridge. He was graduated at Harvard in 1880, and three years later took his degree at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was afterward admitted to the New York bar. but soon turned...