Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinguished Spanish scholar, Professor J. D. M. Ford of Harvard University was welcomed yesterday by prominent members of the Universidad Central, of the Centro de Estudios Historicos, and of the Press at a dinner party given by D. Americo Castro in the name of his colleague's of the Centro de Estudios Historicos. The University was represented by its President, D. Jose R. Carracido. Addresses were made by Senores Maeztu and Gimenez Caballero. The learned professor replied with words of gratitude and affection as well as of promise for the future cultural relations of the two nations...
...There are four widows of Presidents now living. Name them...
School Economy. Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, a onetime school superintendent in Pennsylvania, reported on the work of a commission to which he had been appointed by the N. E. A. in co-operation with Secretary of Commerce Hoover. This commission, which has a very long and complicated name, is studying the financial methods of school systems, the point being that schools are meant to run, like municipal industrial corporations, for the greatest public good at the least public cost. Secretary Hoover himself appeared at another meeting, told his hearers that the country's educational plant is greater than any other...
...Name the fictitious Cabinet member in Drinkwater's Lincoln...
SPANISH BAYONET?Stephen Vincent Benet?Doran ($2). It is characteristic of Author Benet that the pre-Revolutionary Floridian of his tale is an indigo-planter and breeder of cochineal bugs, not a farmer of yams or tobacco; that his name is Gentian, not Brown or Black; that he is not so much a retired army surgeon with impeccable manners and exquisite vintages, as a mage of the sinister arts, whose oval study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned...