Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poet John Howard Payne wrote the extra verses in 1829 as a personal tribute to the "exile" of the verses-Lucretia Augusta Sturgis Bates, wife of Joshua Bates, famed London banker (Baring Bros.). Both Mr. and Mrs. Bates were natives of Massachusetts. He gave great gifts toward the founding of Boston Public Library. Their London years were cheered by opulence, popularity. But Poet Payne, who also spent most of his life away from his native U. S., was a homeless, often unhappy, expatriate, visited by the nostalgia which led him to write his famed song. When he met Mrs. Bates...
...Joshua Crane of Brookline, Mass., used a putter with a 15-inch shaft, accurately, with only one hand...
...gentleman referred to the New York Sun, which was obtaining a telephonic interview, and to George Romney, the 18th Century English cabinet-maker's son who achieved the niceties of Cavendish Square and rivaled Sir Joshua Reynolds as London's favorite painter. Naturally, the Sun had heard of Artist Romney, and quite as naturally of hell's-bellsing Lawrence P. Fisher. The latter is president of Cadillac Motor Co. and next-to-youngest of the six Fisher Brothers who rose from their father's Ohio blacksmithy to dominance in General Motors Corp...
Near present Hebron, the American School of Archaeology has found Kirjath Sepher, which the Israelites captured in the time of Joshua. Interesting are the remains of a wool-dyeing factory, a small household altar of Samuel's time...
Demure was London's Betty Compton. Her smile was mischievous but reliable. She lived 148 years ago, but she is still remembered. Reason: Sir Joshua Reynolds painted her portrait. At the time she was 20. She was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Northampton. Her combined hair & wigs piled up enormously above her white brow, bright eyes, little pointed chin. She concealed her slenderness in an embonpoint of drapery, revealed the toes of her slippers. Sir Joshua painted her against an expanse of foliage. Her parents paid him about $1,050. It meant nothing to debutante Betty. When...