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Word: jonathan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not for his preoccupation with snobbish prose, Author Cabell might be capable of really savage satire. Even in his "habitual vein of romantic irony" he sometimes drops into a phrase that would have given even Jonathan Swift pause, as when he speaks of physical love as "a conjuncture of sewer pipes." But generally Cabell is content to continue astounding the bourgeois by his own superior urbanity. His intelligence and taste alike are now for most readers hopelessly buried under the tricks and oddities of a lush Cabellowing style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smirk | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Arnold M. Ross '35 (L) defaulted to Philip H. Singer '34 (W); Robert M. Peet '36 (W) defeated Jonathan R. Keim '34 (L) 3-1; Stillman P. Williams '35 (W) defeated Stephen Smith '34 (L) 3-2; Abjam T. Collier '34 (L) defeated Alvar V. Polk '34 (W) 3-1; Stephen H. Tyng '33 (L) defeated Ashton Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Squash Results | 3/3/1934 | See Source »

Charles S. Kelley '36 (L) defeated Justin J. Thackara '36 (W) 3-2; Laurens D. Dawes '35 (L) defeated Clifton F. Leatherbee '34 (W) 3-1; Milton Street '35 (W) won by default; Jonathan R. Keim '34 (W) won by default; Charles A. Thorndike '35 (L) won by default...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/2/1934 | See Source »

...assortment of old shoes, dating from 1490 to the 15th Century, was presented to the socialite Antiquarians Club of Chicago, by stately, patrician Lolita Sheldon Armour, widow of Meatpacker Jonathan Ogden Armour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

Eliot 5, Leverett 0. Louis H. Orr, Jr. '36 (E) beat Samuel R. Clarke '35 3-1, Oscar H. Davis '34 (E) beat Abram T. Collier '34 3-0, David Weld '34 (E) beat Jonathan R. Keim '34, 3-2. Nathaniel T. Winthrop '34 (E) beat John P. Sheu '35 3-2, Sebert E. Davenport III '34 (E) beat Stephen-H. Tyng...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/19/1933 | See Source »

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