Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prophets of Yesterday", by John Kelman, well-known minister of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City, deals with the significance of the teachings of Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning in modern thought...
...addition to Mrs. Russell the other patronesses are Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. L. D. Beal, Mrs. E. M. Beals, Mrs. P. P. Chase, Mrs. E. S. Dodge, Mrs. L. M. Gibb, Mrs. C. N. Greenough, Mrs. R. H. Hallowell, Mrs. J. R. Hodder, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. G. S. Mumford, Mrs. T. J. Preston, Mrs. Hunter Robb, and Mrs. Philip Spalding...
...POET ASSASSINATED-Guillaume Apollinaire (Translated from the French by Matthew Josephson)- Broom ($5.00). Wilhelm de Kostrovitsky (Guillaume Apollinaire), was a Frenchman famous for his eccentricities. He was a familiar figure in the Latin Quarter, leading about in his trail a gang of writers and freaks, artists and idiots. Idol of the professional modernists in literature, he was the friend of such distinguished artists as Matisse and Picasso. The Poet Assassinated is a work containing practically all of its author's unlimited peculiarities. It is remotely autobiographical, the history of a poet, whose birth is described with a somewhat appalling...
...year 1721 "A Match at Football" was first published. Its author, Matthew Concanen, was honored by a place in Pope's Dunciad, so that he is best remembered as "a cold, long winded native of the deep". His poem describes a game between the men of Soards and those of Lusk, "adjoyning Baronies in the County of Dublin", and although the teams consisted of but six players a side, the details of play strikingly resemble those of a modern scrimmage. We read: "And now both Bands in close Embraces nmet, And Foot to Foot, and Breast to Breast were...
...That Matthew O'Brien, a San Francisco architect who had been paid $64,000 for hospital plans never used, had been paid an additional $33,000 by order of an official in the Controller General's office, al- though the present officers of the Veterans' Bureau protested that O'Brien had already been overpaid...