Word: mason
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blonde blue-eyed Texan, is a stern and conscientious jurist. For two months he has served on the bench of the Federal Court, Brooklyn, N. Y., during the absence of a resident judge. He took with him a righteous whip which he had learned to crack below the Mason-Dixon line. He flayed what he conceived to be the lax, despicable mores of New York law courts...
Another graph "The Man Who Loved Islands" registers the lifetime development of a man's passion for aloofness. He first indulges his passion by buying an island where he is "The Master" over his own microcosm of necessary attendants-a butler, a housekeeper, a carpenter, a mason. Wearying of these servants, who cheat him, quarrel among themselves, and pine for the peopled mainland, he retreats to a smaller island where he is served by one old couple and their daughter. Out of sheer indifference he allows himself to be seduced by the daughter, whom he marries because...
...Died. Mrs. Max Mason, wife of the onetime (1925-28) president of the University of Chicago, who resigned in May to join the board of the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, May 21); of bronchial pneumonia; in Madison...
Previously Mason Morren had removed all nearby ladders into the building, locked all doors, cut the telephone line. He now ascended and climbed out upon the balustrade, for which Belgium's Hero Primate, the late Desire Cardinal Mercier, approved the following inscription...
Another bankruptcy, last week, was the Mason Tire & Rubber Co. of Cleveland...