Word: lamentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parent's mid-year lament: Unfair Harvard, my son hast thou thrust from thy gates And with curses surrendered him o'er From imperial splendor of Lowell House Hall To a lodging that's on a top floor. Oh what was the use of his ancestor's work, Of his father's bombastic degrees, In History, Gov., Economics, and Math Master Johnny's been taking...
...impassioned tenderness" that he considered essential for true poetry. When the Spanish Fleet at Santiago was destroyed; Admiral Sampson made the "boorish jest" of calling the victory a Fourth of July present to the U. S. people. Santayana wrote Spain in America as an answer. The poem is a lament for Spain's "sadness and dishonor," a moving and eloquent cry for a marriage of the two cultures, the spirits of the North and South...
While in Washington last week lawyers with unaristocratic names fired questions at J. P. Morgan and Thomas W. Lament in gangster argot (see p. 12), in London there was decorum and courtesy as the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture and Trade in Arms examined great armament tycoons...
...establish University Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were invited to give $25,000 for a scholarship. Very rich Harvardmen were invited to put up $500,000 to found a University Professorship. Last week Thomas William Lament, No. 2 partner and traditional spokesman of J. P. Morgan & Co., proved himself a very rich Harvardman. To Dr. Conant he wrote: "I am glad to give . . . $500,000 as a foundation for one of the University Professorships. It would be a great satisfaction if the Corporation were able to call...
...component companies. A legendary figure listed in neither Social Register nor Who's Who, he has been sitting on Steel's directorate since 1919 as the equal of such men as Myron Charles Taylor, John Pierpont Morgan, Sewell Lee Avery, Walter Gifford, George Fisher Baker, Thomas W. Lament. He will continue to sit there after he starts drawing his pension...