Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every schoolboy knows that the state of West Virginia was born in the early thunder of the Civil War. Its people, refusing to follow Lee into the camp of Jefferson Davis, seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union...
...week would have taken him longer to read. Merely a list of his sitters is a comprehensive British and U. S. Hall of Fame of the last half century. Statesmen like Woodrow Wilson, John Hay; men of affairs like Lord Ribblesdale, Theodore Roosevelt; actors, actresses like Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Ellen Terry; authors, educators, beauties, generals, industrialists. Though he announced in 1903 that he would paint no more portraits, he occasionally broke his rule, twice to make it possible for future generations to scrutinize the incomparable countenance of John D. Rockefeller...
Harvard will join with the University of Virginia in offering a new course of professional study in architecture, it was announced yesterday by President Edwin A. Alderman, Hon. '09, of Virginia. President Alderman, speaking at the celebration in honor of Thomas Jefferson, founder of Virginia University, announced that the new course would be known as the "Virginia-Harvard Course in Architecture...
...President Jefferson...
...appeared at the Museum. The very names ought to interest your generation, for I'm sure they still are of interest to mine. There were, to name a few, the elder and younger Sothern, John Drew, the elder and younger Booth, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, Lawrence Barrett, Joseph Jefferson, the Wallacks, E. L. Davenport, and Eleanora Duse...