Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King George in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace invested 19 strapping miners with the King Edward medal for working nine dangerous hours to save a miner comrade...
...Institute ceremonies he unintentionally attained another distinction. In a ball room of evening clothes his was the only business suit, the only soft white shirt. The tuxedoes applauded him heartily, none more so than President Frederick Worthen Bradley of Alaska Juneau Mining Co., who also won a miner's & metallurgist's award...
List: You have said that a "fair price" means a price that should enable the miner and his employers and the sales agent to make a fair return. Does it include anything else...
...Author? Phi Beta Kappa coal-miner, society reporter (New York Herald), Genealogist James Branch Cabell has written some 18 volumes about the inhabitants of Poictesme. fairyland of his heart's desire, drawn in such mind's-eye detail that he has made maps of it. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1879 ne still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces...
...Great Britain's delegation to Geneva. Present was bespectacled little Founder Buchman who spends most of his time in England. From Edinburgh came Mrs. Alexander Whyte, relict of the later moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland and principal of New College. Accompanying her was James Watt, onetime miner, hot Communist who used to agitate among Fifeshiremen while living on the Dole. Came also Commander Sir Walter George Windham who lists himself in Who's Who as "founder of the Aeroplane Club, 1908; took part in early motor drive to Brighton; owner of cars since 1897; Controller...