Word: manne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Emeritus Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago was there, and Dr. James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist. Drs. Shailer Mathews and Theodore G. Scares of the Chicago University divinity school, and Maurice L. Goodkind of the medical school, were there. So were Lessing Rosenthal, Dr. Louis Mann, Harold H. Swift and other important Chicago south-siders-all at the home of Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, for a party as distinguished as it was unusual...
...asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career as a singer has extended over 50 years...
Married. Lucille Quarry, of the editorial staff of the Woman's Home Companion, to Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the National Zoological Park, Washington, who returned last fortnight from Africa with 1,700 live wild animals (TIME...
Meantime, the steel ark's Noah, Dr. William M. Mann, proceeded from Boston to the National Zoological Park at Washington, which he superintends, with some 1,700 other African creatures loaded on eight trucks, and ushered all safely into permanent captivity. It was the end of the largest live-animal-collecting expedition of modern times, which all started when Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles) heard that Washington urchins lamented the lack of giraffes, zebras and "rhinoc'ruses" in the nation's zoo (TiME, March...
...rhinoc'rus" was among the horde of beasts, birds and reptiles captured by Dr. Mann, but there were: a shoebill stork* and some 400 other birds including hawks, crested tawny eagles, white-headed vultures, paradise finches, rare parrots; an elephant shrew; the largest leopard in captivity; civet cats, water mongooses, baboons, purple-faced monkeys, hyenas. Among the antelopes quarantined at Boston were five impalla, most graceful of their family; a baby eland, blind in one eye from the blazing grass in which he was captured; several dik-diks, no bigger than jackrabbits...