Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staged a real riot. Chicago was insulted when Oscar made withering remarks about their water tower. In St. Louis the audience was impolite. In Denver up-to-date brothel-keepers showed their awareness of his approach by redecorating their cribs in pre-Raphaelite style, while the girls amazed their miner customers by screaming "Ut-terly utter!" Leadville, Colo, tried to frighten Oscar off with threatening letters, but nothing happened to him when he went there. When Griggsville, Kans. wired him an invitation to lecture on esthetics, he replied: "Begin by changing the name of your town." His tour netted Oscar...
Leroy M. S. Miner, Dean of the Harvard Dental School and president-elect of the American Dental Association, was presented the Newell Sill Jenkins Medal of the Connecticut State Dental Association at the society's annual meeting held here tonight...
...medal was presented at the evening session after Dr. Miner had given a paper on "the Widening Opportunities for the Dentist in Oral Diagnosis." The medal was established in 1922 by Leonard A. Jenkins of New Haven, and is awarded each year to the person who, in the judgment of a committee appointed from the Connecticut State Dental Association, has made a notable contribution to Dentistry, Science or Humanity...
...whole production bristles with talented contributions which stager Worthington Miner has welded into a highly animated, pleasingly smooth and sure-paced vehicle for the bright talents of Ray Bolger, Luella Gear, Tamara Geva, Doris Carson, Monty Woolley and a galaxy of well constructed demoiselles. The book represents the combined efforts of Messrs. George Abbott and the skilful team of Rodgers and Hart who have also supplied it with a variety of tuneful and well-worded songs. The accent is definitely on the dancing which has been supervised by George Balanchine, the eminent choreographer...
...bought the Homestake claims for $70,000 and incorporated them in San Francisco in 1877. In the preceding summer the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians had been driven westward out of the Black Hills by U. S. troops sent to avenge the Custer massacre, and for the first time a miner's scalp was safe in Gold Run Canyon, site of the first prospecting. The rich lodes at Homestake soon grew richer as the shafts drove deeper. Astutely managed after George Hearst's death by his shrewd widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin...