Word: laments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been spilled on the oak and the king's strong-thewed companions, none over 30, sprawl, snore or listen intently to the end of a long-drawn saga sung by Maccus, the harper. They thump the board with their cups at the finish. The ladies, gathered apart, lament the saga's true-loving hero...
Contributions have been slow and from too few people. Financier Cutting knew that, but instead of coming to the cancer society meeting last week, he sent a letter. Financier Thomas W. Lament, who was there, read the letter aloud: "I write to say that I will contribute the last $250,000 of the $1,000,000 endowment fund which your society is endeavoring to raise, if the whole amount is subscribed by Oct. 1. When $750,000 is paid or subscribed, I will pay the $250,000 of my pledge...
...their class directory, thumb-marks of Harvard 1921-ers may be found upon the name of Thomas S. Lament, son of famed Morgan Partner Lament, upon the name of a Cabot, a Frothingham, a Lee, a Lothrop, a Lowell, a Sedgwick. They do not all know one another. But all know Powers Hapgood. He is their only coal miner. He prepared for Harvard at Andover, where Yale is the most popular college...
...reading, as non-Harvard men can discover in "Copey's" an- thology, may start off with something from the Bible-nothing dull like all those "begatters" (ST. MATTHEW,) but something with action like the Israelites' conquest of Canaan (JUDGES IV :V), something affecting like David's lament for Absalom (SAMUEL XVIII; XIX), or something portentous out of REVELATION. Or it may begin with so different a thing as Lewis Carroll's "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; " And yet you incessantly stand on your head...
...period, although 8,478,000 more bales were produced. Morgan Partners. On Wall Street there was talk that two new partners might be added to J. P. Morgan & Co. after Jan. 1. Present partners are: J. P. Morgan, Edward T. Stotesbury, Charles Steele, Thomas W. Lament, Horatio G. Lloyd, Dwight W. Morrow, Thomas Cochran, Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., George Whitney, Thomas S. Gates, R. C. Leffingwell...