Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More Tension, U. S. Minister Matthew Elting Hanna was on vacation in Guatemala on the fatal Tuesday. Reporters found him. on his swift return to the wreck that had been his home, standing beside a suitcase with Mrs. Hanna. "That suitcase," said Minister Hanna dully, "contains all we have in the world." It was not quite all. As the U. S. Legation crumbled and blazed, the Hannas' pet green parrot had slipped from his cage, crawled down a ledge and flopped into the arms of an Army officer. Nerves stretched to the breaking point. Immediately after the shocks...
...been cut away, so that the inner bowl is visible. The most striking part of all this elaborate carving are the twelve seated figures. These are identified as Jesus- once as a boy and once as an adult-and some of the disciples: Jude and James, Peter, Paul, Mark, Matthew, John and James the Greater. Dr. Eisen regards the figures as actual portraits. It is noteworthy that Christ is beardless...
...head patronesses are to be Mrs. Charles G. Mixter and Mrs. Matthew Luce. About 24 other patronesses, chiefly mothers of members of the Freshman class, will be chosen by the head patronesses with the aid of the Committee. Eight ushers are to be picked outside of their own number by the present committee to aid in the management of the dance...
...costly new Sterling Memorial Library. Last month the library got through the Associates' work a notable gift?a summary of Dr. Albert Einstein's relativity theory, written in his own hand, valued at $25,000 (TIME, March 16). And last week it received 160 original letters from Poet Matthew Arnold to Poet Arthur Hugh Clough, upon whose death Arnold wrote Thyrsis* With money given by members of Yale's class of 1917, Professor Tinker bought the letters from Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet's son, in England...
Somewhat in the manner of Leopold Stokowski, who is constantly telling his audiences how to deport themselves. Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch last week suggested that people wear dark clothing for the performance of Bach's Passion of Our Lord According to St. Matthew given in Philadelphia with stage and choristers draped in black. Philadelphians take conductors' orders with remarkable grace. Most of them did as little Mr. Gabrilo-witsch asked. But one Ellen Winsor of Haverford objected, said that Gabrilo- witsch was out-churching the churches, that rather than waste time considering their raiment people would do better...