Word: nassaue
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Princeton a small, brown-shingled house had been leased for the Einsteins, near the homes of the late Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Henry van Dyke and John Grier Hibben. First thing Dr. Einstein did was stroll hatless down Princeton's Nassau (main) St., enter a 5?-&-10? store to buy a comb and scissors. Then he bought two newspapers, listened attentively and smoked his pipe while his associate, Dr. Walther Mayer, translated the news aloud. Next morning the Press assembled, at the invitation of Princeton's publicity department, for photographs. At length it was announced that Dr. Einstein...
...restless inhabitants of Reunion or West turn over in their beds these drear days, rudely called from the arms of Morpheus by the peal of Old Nassau, which seems even yet in the still, small hours of the morning to summon men to a ghostly service, they may innocently consider to themselves the sublime beauty and glorious value of ancient traditions. --The Princetonian...
Meanwhile last week Gerardo Machado y Morales was traveling from Nassau. Bahama Islands, to Montreal. With guns in belts, he and his friends ate in their cabins. When the ship docked at Hamilton, Bermuda, he waited until the dock was clear, then appeared at the head of the gangway. Bermuda's Chief of Police hastened up, spoke in his ear. Machado & friends went back to their cabins. Asked by newshawks what would be his last wish if he knew he were about to die, he replied : "That Cuba might always be a free and sovereign State." He added...
...Nassau St. between the years 1868 and 1915 was a long, ill-lit, barnlike room jammed with rolltop desks, littered with paper, its walls smeared with grime and dirt. When the presses pounded on the floor above, a thin downpour of dust floated over the room. Grimy wires and rusty old hooks used by gymnasts when Tammany Hall had occupied the building were suspended from the ceiling. A tortuous circular staircase led to the room, up & down which ambitious young reporters used to trudge: Arthur Brisbane, Samuel Hopkins Adams, David Graham Phillips, Edwin C. Hill, Will and Wallace Irwin, Walter...
...period from 1860-62 when a religious group edited it and held noon prayer meetings in the city room. Then in 1868 a group of investors headed by Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, moved it lock, stock & barrel to the fusty old building on Nassau Street...