Word: mr
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trouble with this," explained the great political economist, "was that it wasn't tough enough for the readers' taste. So a novel developed that was staged in the open, where the heroine was always Miss Middleton--always the Miss." Mr. Leacock went on to describe the hair-breadth escape from the Apaches of the typical couple alone far out in the wilderness; how the hero lowers the girl 200 feet down a precipice with his lariat, and they ride off together over the prairie to the little railway station, where they are to separate forever...
...this time never a word of love between them. Think of riding hundreds of miles together and always--'Miss Middleton' and 'Mr. Smith.' And then the train approaches...
Dean Haskins served as the American member of the Saar Valley Commission at the Peace Conference during the last year, while Professor Taussig was an economic adviser with the American Commission at Paris. He has also served recently as chairman of the United States Tariff Commission. Mr. Corcoran is a prominent Cambridge merchant...
...Mr. Magoun, who will speak on the Treaty from the point of view of the service man, was attached to the American Ambulance Field Service before the United States entered the war. In March, 1917, he joined the British Army, and was shortly afterwards commissioned a first lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. Last year he was wounded in action and was awarded the British Military Cross. He was honorably, discharged last June and is now an instructor in Comparative Literature at the University...
...Mr. Epstein's gift, by providing the money for loans to many of the more needy students, has removed the chief bar in the way of the change and has thus enabled the Law School to add to its income an amount equivalent to the income from an endowment of nearly $1,000,000. In his letter accompanying the gift Mr. Epstein wrote as follows of the Law School...