Word: mason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard time at the John Mason Brown lectures. He has been to five out of six so far and he hasn't yet had a chance to sit down and enjoy one thoroughly. Brown has talked on every one of Vag's favorites among the modern dramatists, but poor Vag has been uncomfortable through them all. Brown has waxed witty on Shaw and on Shirley Temple; he has coined (or quoted) sparkling epigrams--the kind that Vag, himself coins (or quotes) in his day-dreams--on Chekhov and on Mrs. Roosevelt. But through it all Vag has sat disconsolate...
Preliminary hearings have been set for 2 o'clock Monday, when attorneys for the MacMillan Company. Robert R. Thurber and Henry L. Mason, Jr., will formally present their motion. Another hearing will then be scheduled for a week or so later when both the publishing firm and the College Tutoring Bureau will present their arguments...
Among those assisting Professor Langer in the writing of the encyclopedia are Lauriston Ward, lecturer on anthropology; Robert O. Schlaiffer, instructor in history; Mason Hammond, associate professor of Greek and Latin and of history, in the field of ancient history...
Arthur Horace James. Freckly, redhaired, 100% reactionary, Pennsylvania's G. O. P. Governor James, 56, is the ideal President to many Americans. A coal-mine breaker's boy, a small-town lawyer, a Methodist and 33rd degree Mason, he respects hard work, thrift, the Bible and Oilman Joe Pew; likes Welsh singing, duck-shooting, boiled dinners; wears high-top shoes with hooked laces; loathes progressivism in any form but the abstract. Yet there have been U. S. Presidents of less force than Mr. James...
Last night Harvard's Widener-weary population was presented with a rich menu of extra-curricular delicacies. No less than four courses were offered, ranging from LaGuardia soup to John Mason Brown pie. The decision as to which three items to miss was painful indeed, and the very richness of the choice encouraged a resigned withdrawal...