Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sundays and witches were hurned on Harvard Square, that the undergraduates still had a sense of humor. According to the frontispiece, the song constitutes a versified testament and is entitled "Father Abbey's Will". An explanatory preface precedes the first lines which reads: "Some time since died here Mr. Matthew Abbey in a very advanced age. He had for many year's served the college in quality of bed maker and sweeper. Having no child, his wife inherited his whole estate which he bequeathes to her in his last will and testament as follows...
...patronnesses for the dance are Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. Robert DeC. Ward, Mrs. George Chandler, Mrs. A. W. Allen, and Mrs. Claude Fuess...
...Paul Michael Fekula, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Raymond Matthew Fuoss, Altoona, Pa.; Theodore Benedict Massell, Brookline; J. Robert Oppenheimer, Bay Shore, L. L. N. Y.; Jule Elias Stocker, Detroit. Mich.; John Ellrington Stocker, Brooklyn, N. Y.; David William Wallwork, North Andover...
...Until, now, the most enlightening work on Keats has been the scholarly Life of Sidney Colvin; the stupidest, an interpretation of the poet by Prof. H. Clement Notcutt of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Other famed men of letters who have tried unsuccessfully to write the truth about Keats are: Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, James Russell Lowell, Stephen Brooke, the Earl of Belfast, Lord Houghton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey. In 1853, Keats was included in The Lives of the Illustrious; in 1857, he achieved the severe immortality of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Candidates. Next day, in Manhattan, the Executive Committee of the American Federation of Labor met and chose a successor to serve out Mr. Gompers' term. There were three candidates: James Duncan, for 30 years Mr. Gompers' lieutenant; Matthew Woll, President of the International Photo-Engravers Union; William Green, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, a man but recently come into prominence. All were Vice Presidents of the Federation and hence of the Executive Committee which chose the President...