Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propagandists never even wants to discover the truth; he is in too great a hurry to makes his case against the fools and the wicked, having, as a rule, no idea how like the fools and the wicked are to the wise and good." As for Sir Joshua Reynolds, who "hoped that British Art would take its place in the European tradition and achieve what he called the grand style," "one is tempted to take his mastery for granted," forgetting that "he learned to imitate the final results of mastery without going through the preliminaries." Still Fry is not altogether...
...Richard Joshua Reynolds chose the name Camel for the cigaret which revolutionized the tobacco industry because he liked animal names and because Camel was easy to pronounce. Before Camels were invented the U.S. was producing about ten billion cigarets a year, a large proportion Turkish. Leading domestic brands like Piedmont and Sweet Caporal were made of unblended Carolina leaf. The year Tobaccoman Reynolds launched his cigaret of blended domestic and Turkish tobacco (1913), cigaret consumption leaped to fifteen and a half billion. He followed it up with a highly successful merchandising campaign, profited immensely by the amazing luck that fell...
...JOSHUA TODD-Fulton Oursler-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Bulky, somewhat raffish story of a young man against whom fate loaded the dice...
...platform in a bare Manhattan hall last Sunday sat the divinely inspired Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 750,000 saints on earth?Heber Jedediah Grant, 78, stubble-bearded President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With him sat his trusty First Counselor, pudding-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., one-time U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; his potent Presiding Bishop, rangy Sylvester Q. Cannon; his Eastern representative, Don Byron Colton, longtime U. S. Representative from Utah...
...Joshua McLennan...