Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considered," said old Matthew Vassar when he founded Vassar Female College, "that the MOTHERS of a country mold the character of its citizens, determine its institutions and shape its destiny...
...Matthew D. R. Riddell, Urbana, III., as Assistant in Sanitary Engineering, candidate for S.B. Harvard '40; John F. Callahan, now Instructor in the Classics and in Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago, as Visiting Instructor in Greek and Latin, and Tutor; and William W. Minton '39, of Middletown, O., as Teaching Fellow in the Classics, and Tutor
...question are secured through an organization which calls itself "Matthew's Man Market" handled by four enterprising seniors. Obtaining its "wares" from Yale, Harvard and Princeton, the Man Market has carned, to date, thirty dollars, most of which was accumulated during the Harvard Hasty Pudding weekend. Still another concern carried on a "rushing service" at the dance following the Hasty, Pudding show and is said to have acquired a tidy sum. -Vassar Miscellany News...
...Eighth Warders this parsimony verged on blasphemy. What would the Eighth's old saloon-frequenting boss, Good Time Buck Devlin, have said of this stinginess? Or Mr. Devlin's peers-Senator Boies Penrose, Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, "Iz" Durham, or the three Vare brothers from the Neck (South Philadelphia...
Giants. Overlord of all Pennsylvania from the '80s until 1904 was Matthew Stanley Quay, a stocky strategist with miscast eyes who made greed a fine art. Matt Quay, who shared national Republican power with Ohio's Mark Hanna, had a simple philosophy: "When a politician dies he leaves only what is found on him.'' Boss Quay sold offices, gambled with public funds, looted banks, racketeered in public contracts, drove at least a dozen men to suicide, ran Pennsylvania with a precise regard for 1) personal pelf, 2) the Republican Party as the guarantor of the protective...