Word: longworth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the United States supreme court, the Hon. Hamilton Fish, Judge Robert Grant, Robert Bacon, the roster is long of those who in their time capered in the Pudding shows. We smile as we notice that Thomas Mott Ocborne once played Helen of Troy, that "Nick" Longworth gave a violin solo one night in 1890, and that Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Company, was a chorus girl upon a time. This year the club offers an amateur musical comedy of which the whole cast is made up of men who have been in the service...
Another most gratifying phase of war financing is the very large proportion of our present expenditures which we are raising by taxation. Mr. Longworth, in the House the other day, pointed out that England had met 20 percent of her war expenditures by taxes; France and Italy each about 16 percent; Russia and Germany not more than 10 or 11 percent. The United States, on the basis of these reduced war expenditures, will be raising 45 percent through taxes. This does not, of course, include loans to the Allies. Neither does it include the larger estimate of the yield...
...north end of the bridge, a tablet on the right hand column bears the following dedication, which explains the use of the scholar and soldier symbols: "This bridge was built in memory of Nicholas Longworth Anderson, graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1858; Adjutant-Colonel, Brevet-Brigadier and Major-General of volunteers in the Civil War. To a father by a son." Above this tablet, on the north side is the eagle, the soldier's habit, shield, helmet and banner all welded in bronze forms. On the opposite side of the column is a similar symbol composed...
...stone tablets designed by Larz Anderson '88 for the Stadium Birdge have finally been placed on the pillars at either approach and the bridge is now complete. The bridge was built by Larz Anderson '88 in memory of his father, Nicholas Longworth Anderson '58, and was opened last spring...
...This bridge was built in memory of Nicholas Longworth Anderson, graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1858; adjutant colonel; brevet brigadier, and major general of volunteers in the Civil War. To a father...