Word: keith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Headliner last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...
...British press received with little comment and no protest the dogmatic assertion of Sir Arthur Keith, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in session last fortnight at Leeds, that "Darwin was right," that men and apes had a common ancestor (TIME, Sept...
...Bishop of Ripon was not lynched. But upon his sermon fell the press comments that a few had expected for Sir Arthur Keith's speech. Said the New York Times, for example: "The Bishop of Ripon can hardly have been serious." Sir Oliver Lodge said that the good Bishop reminded him of his grandmother, who viewed with alarm railroad trains going 40 m.p.h...
...relation to imperial development"-glossing over, for the rest, a royal ignorance of science itself with a few royal witticisms (TIME, Aug. 16, 1926). Now a real scientist was president again. The Association might get on with its business. The members settled back to attend President Sir Arthur Keith, who made every effort to transport his audience from the perfunctory to the profound...
Darwin to Date. It was 68 years since that gentlest of men, Charles Darwin, had trundled into position a battery of facts, collected patiently for many years, and blown mankind from its citadel of Biblical belief in its special divine origin. Sir Arthur Keith, whose audience included a kingdomful of radio listeners and a worldful of newspaper readers, proposed to review the Darwinian batteries; to report on their condition and any changes made in them since Darwin's time; and to affirm, once for all, the official stand of British science on Darwin's proposition that humanity...