Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief reason was the Democratic candidate. Martin H. Kennelly (rhymes with uh-nelly) was something new in Chicago politics. A businessman and civic leader, he had fought the Kelly-Nash machine in 1936 and 1939. This year he had consented to run only on condition that he would have no interference from Jake Arvey's Democratic machine...
...people who sent their children there were a measure of its success: they included college presidents (Compton of M.I.T., Conant of Harvard, Carmichael of Tufts); bishops (Dun of Washington, Nash of Massachusetts); professors (Harvard Law School's Thomas Reed Powell, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
...always been primarily for those who enjoy reading verso 'for the fun of it," and is designed to provide a comfortable, quiet retreat where interested students may while away an hour or so browsing through their favorite versifiers or discovering a few new ones--from William Blake to Ogden Nash. Unlike the Farnsworth Room, which is better known--and much closer to ground-level-- it is also a circulating library, and books may be taken out, under the usual rules...
...broad churchman like Bishop Sherrill, 58-year-old Norman Nash, son of an Episcopal clergyman, was graduated from Harvard and Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge (Mass.). He studied at Cambridge (England), and was ordained in time to serve as a chaplain in World War I. After the war he returned to Episcopal Theological School, where for 19 years he taught New Testament and Christian social ethics, built a reputation for encyclopedic knowledge and crisp, closely reasoned lectures...
When he went to St. Paul's in 1939, intimates wondered how he would take to its cloistered tyrannies and traditions. Some faculty members soon found Headmaster Nash's dynamic forthrightness hard to take and some of his proposed changes even harder; most such masters have now left the school. Though St. Paul's and its headmaster could part with some relief, the Bishop-elect took his time about making up his mind...