Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sosthenes Behn is ancestrally Dutch-French. By birth, he is Danish, having been born at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands, U. S. territory). His first name is the Greek for "life-strength." By his own efforts, he is a naturalized American. A touch of World War heroism becomes his dark, tall, military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first...
...rest is good-will (of readers and advertisers). Indeed, a cautious investor might be alarmed if he asked himself the question: "How do I know definitely that anyone is going to buy this newspaper tomorrow or that anyone is going to advertise in it?" Habit and a good name are the only answers that a newspaper can give the investor. These answers evidently inspire confidence, for reputable newspaper bonds are being sold with almost as low a rate of interest as high-grade industrial bonds. Scarcely a week passes without the appearance of some journalistic bond issue (TIME...
...suppose you will think me forward for calling you by your first name," wrote a lady to Andy Cohen, Giant's second baseman, "but ... I understand you are Jewish and single ... if you would care to meet a brunette . . . Anyway drop me a little note and maybe I will send you my . . ." "Yeah, I get hundreds of them," said Second-baseman Cohen...
...influence on music in the U. S. than any other group. It has played before approximately 8,000,000 people, has traveled approximately 400,000 miles. Because the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer willed $500,000 to the Philharmonic, it could not legally abandon its identity. Therefore, it changed its name to Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York and at once absorbed the Symphony's directorate. Each orchestra will maintain its separate identity until the end of the present season. Of the new Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, chairman of the Philharmonic Society, will be chairman...
...ISLAND WITHIN- Ludwig Lewisohn-Harpers ($2.50). The author, a Jew, was evidently in a sweat of fervor when he wrote this novel. He cries out in his preface: "Then, in God's name, let us tell wiser, broader, deeper stories- stories with morals more significant and rich. . . . Let us recover, if possible, something of an epic note. To do that there is no need of high-flown words or violent actions. Only a constant sense of the streaming generations, of the processes of historic change, of the true character of man's magnificent and tragic adventure between earth...