Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woodrow Wilson, accompanied by the Misses Belle Baruch and Evangeline Johnson, called at the Palais des Nations, home of the League, and was received by Miss Florence Wilson, League Librarian, "a distant relative of the late President...
...Amherst graduate (1892), Dr. Johnson received his M.A. from that college in 1895, the year that Calvin Coolidge was graduated cum laude...
...wight named Tell should win a shooting match? Or one called Nero should give violin concerts? Or some Greek christened Achilles die of blood poisoning in the heel? Almost as fine a day for lovers of coincidence occurred one day last week, when The New York Times headlined: DR. JOHNSON TO EDIT DICTIONARY, referring to crisp, diffident Dr. Allen Johnson* of Yale University and the Dictionary of American Biography, the production of which the Times has underwritten (TIME, Dec. 22, THE PRESS...
...should "the Great Lexicographer" far outrun in fame his 20th Century namesake when the latter's work is completed. Twenty volumes containing lives of U. S. celebrities (dead 25 years at the minimum) would be a monument to any man that compiled them. Moreover, the second Dr. Johnson was chosen because it is intended that the work shall be finally authoritative, modeled on the English Dictionary of National Biography, edited by the late Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sydney Lee. He was chosen because his record (as professor, as biographer of Stephen A. Douglas, as U. S. historian, as supervisor...
Crisp, diffident Allen Johnson...