Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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All in all, says President Hancher, the State University of Iowa has more than lived up to the hopes of its founders who knelt that day in 1847 to pray for wisdom. It has turned out governors (Archie Alexander of the Virgin Islands), senators (Bourke Hickenlooper), scholars (Political Scientist Charles...
The charge up Kettle Hill (later renamed San Juan Hill as more romantic) and his African lion-hunting trip are familiar to every history book reader, but some minor adventures were every bit as dramatic. As a "gentleman rancher" in the Bad Lands of Dakotas, Roosevelt was also a deputy...
This dictionary definition refers to a fat (3,370 pages), red reference book which is indispensable to libraries, businessmen and working newsmen. Dozens of times a day in city rooms in the U.S., Who's Who in America (price: $20.80) is consulted by reporters for information. Who's...
Biographees. Such a policy has made Who's Who a valuable piece of property. Sammons has been offered $1,000,000 for it. Founded in 1897 by Albert Nelson Marquis, a Cincinnati calendar and directory publisher, Who's Who was already firmly established when Sammons joined the firm...
Into a setting of grimly pursued gaiety--a country houseparty given by a charmingly useless marquis and attended by his wife, mistress and assorted dignitaries--comes an earnest young hero. Infatuated with the wife, he believes that she returns his love, but her advances (or halting retreats) are little more...