Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About a score of years ago the heart of Harvard University was torn with maddened anguish. A Radcliffe lady--Mrs. Ride Johnson Young--had perpetrated a play called "Brown of Harvard." It was like nothing the staid precincts of the Harvard Yard had ever seen or hoped to see. Conservative alumni gnashed their teeth in impotent frenzy. Undergraduates, not conservative at all, greeted the Boston opening of the play with senescent garden produce...
...chairmen, Thomas Bartlett Quigley of Omaha, Neb., Oscar Straus Schafer of New York City; Committee members, Theodore Otis Brewster of Dedham, Morton Cole of Hingham, Alfred Townsend Hartwell of Honolulu. Lawrence Harry Hitch Johnson Jr. of Milton, Frederick Billings Lee of New York City, William Rupert MacLaurin of Boston, Samuel Newbury Mauierre of Milwaukee Wis., John Martin Noble of St. Louis...
...committee of judges which made the awards consisted of three men. Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 of the Department of Government, Professor J. S. P. Tatlock '96 of the English Department and Associate Professor J. E. Johnson of the Department of Education...
Next day alert Peorians learned that Lincoln Eyre, able correspondent of the New York Times, had cabled an interview which William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson had just given him in Berlin, Germany (TIME, April 5, GERMANY...
...Europe in search of Correspondent Eyre, who could not be found. The wireless editor pulled out the original despatch. With the usual economy of words it read: "Pussyfoot arrived Germany intending make it second Sahara," which seemed ample justification for the rewrite man to have written: "William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, well known Dry crusader...