Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Harvard got a letter from one of its better-heeled alumni, Morgan board chairman Thomas W. Lament, '92. "Dear Mr. Conant," it read, "I have this day delivered to your treasurer securities with a marketable value of $1,500,000 ... to enable Harvard to build the undergraduate library that you tell me [it] needs. My own gratitude to Harvard is unbounded, and the sense of exhilaration and stimulus that the college gave my undergraduate years is as vivid today as it was a half-century...
...school deep in traditions and a $250,000 debt. It had been founded the year Cornwallis surrendered, by John Phillips, whose nephew, Samuel Phillips, started Andover. Daniel Webster went to Exeter; Presidents Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland sent their sons. Other Exonian notables: Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Banker Thomas W. Lament (now president of the trustees...
Missing in Action. Thomas William Lamont II, 20, seaman first class, son of Thomas S. Lament, vice president and director of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., grandson of famed Thomas W. Lamont, Morgan board chairman; on the overdue submarine Snook...
...words down to a tenth of its length. It also cleaned it up. (Mussolini is quoted as calling King Vittorio Emanuele an "S.O.B."; the News delicately notes that "the Italian term was more lurid and anatomical.") Generally, however, the Ciano diary is a long-winded loser's lament, repeating all the familiar whines (Italy did not want war; Germany betrayed Italy and never told the Italians anything). Its most sensational charge-that Prime Minister Chamberlain submitted a speech to the Duce before delivering it to the House of Commons-will need more documentation than...
Irving Berlin came home from a three-months' tour of the Pacific war areas with a new song described as "a serviceman's lament." Chorus...