Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Hampden, only prominent actor-manager in the U. S. theatre,* was last week elected president of The Players. He succeeds the late John Drew and, according to the tradition of the club, will hold the post until death. Other presidents have been Edwin Booth, the founder; Joseph Jefferson...
...Kansas City. As early as Sept. 20, they would all (except the pamphlets, posters, bulletins) be back in Chicago to "superintend" the Tunney-Dempsey prize fight. In the interim Mayor Thompson planned to propel his hulking, ruddy figure into national politics by "preaching the doctrines of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. ... I am standing now for what the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence stood for. What was good enough for them is good enough for me!" Specifically, and divested of glamor, that means: 1) No Geneva parley or League of Nations entanglement; 2) flood relief...
...engaged in carving on the face of Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt...
Next day Representative Lee Edmundson of Jefferson, Ala., introduced the following resolution to the state legislature...
Electricians were busy last week on the roof of a hotel in Charlottes ville, Va. Three miles away, across a valley, stood Monticello, old home of Thomas Jefferson. The electricians were adjusting a search light to play on Monticello, a searchlight so huge that were Mon ticello a mile nearer, the dazzling light would artificially "sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia...