Word: jeremiahs
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...bond issue dropped eight points in a single session, and New York, New Haven & Hartford (mileage: 2,072) issues sank five points to new lows for the year, around 25? or 30? on the dollar. New Haven's new president Howard S. Palmer, who succeeded John Jeremiah Pelley last autumn, felt obliged to announce: "We are not contemplating any reorganization at this time...
...Author Wolfe picks up his story, continues his method: he flays real life until the skin is off it and the blood comes. The skin-narrative can be shortly told. Eugene Gant, youngest of his family, at 19 leaves his Southern home and goes to Harvard. His father, a Jeremiah miscast, is slowly dying. In Cambridge Eugene studies hard at his playwriting course, makes many a queer acquaintance, one good friend: Starwick, a Midwestern esthete. After going home for his father's funeral, and finishing his Harvard course, Eugene goes to Manhattan, teaches English for a while...
...following faculty members have received grants: Martson S. Balch '25, Jeremiah D. M. Ford '92, Smith Professor of French and Spanish; George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature; Kirsopp Lake '25, professor of History; David M. Little '17, Curator of the Theatre Collection; John L. Lowest '05, Francis Literature; Francis P. Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature; Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, associate professor of Comparative Literature; Milman Parry, assistant professor of Greek and Latin; Arthur S. Pease '02, professor of Latin; Chandler R. Post '04, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts; Edward K. Rand '94, Pope...
...office. A Boy Scout was first in line. A 78-year-old town character named Pliny B. Seymour had himself fingerprinted "in case my memory should fail or something." A couple from the cannery brought their four-month-old daughter. The whole Rotary Club, including Representative Wadsworth & Son James Jeremiah ("Jerry") who sits in the State Assembly, marched over from their weekly luncheon to press their fingers on a chemical pad, press them again on a sensitized card on which the prints then showed black...
...Faced in 1898 with ruinous Japanese competition, he steals government bullion from one of his own vessels, then scuttles her to conceal the deed. It is not money for which Button lusts, however, but rather power, and the ability to create. His faith in himself is colossal, and like Jeremiah, he shrouds all his actions in a sort of Old Testament Christianity...