Word: nathans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prior to this so Jewish deathbed scene the five sons were already dispersed about Europe, leading the various branches of the House. "My father," wrote Nathan Rothschild, "once sent to me in England £600,000 in a single packet by post ($2,916,000)." So long as their mother Frau Gudula Rothschild lived, the five sons came from the ends of Europe to discuss with her and with one another every large transaction. They met in the very house with the rothes schild?but, shrewd, they had it painted green to stop the puns of passersby...
Clannishness. ". . . Conscienceless physicians who conceal unethical or criminal methods of practice behind a few ethical physicians on the staff who ignore, whether purposefully or not, the other members' misdeeds."?Dr. Nathan Porter Colwell, Chicago...
When Governor Nathan L. Miller of New York took office on Jan. 1, 1921,* members of women's clubs pointed with pride to his seven daughters, claimed that he had established a world's record for U. S. Governors. Last week the new Governor of South Carolina took office. He has nine daughters. Their names and ages: NAME...
Enoch Arnold Bennett, British journalist: "In criticism of U. S. book reviews I referred thus to U. S. Journalists George Jean Nathan and Henry Louis Mencken: 'These illustrious warriors are very readable. They are also violent, impudent, farcical, grotesque and intellectually unscrupulous. It is impossible that writers who "go on" with the pen as they do could reliably distinguish a good book or good play from a bad one. . . . I do not wish them death. I read them with gusto. They make me laugh...
Died. Lee Kohns, 62, wealthy importer of china and glass, one-time president of the New York Board of Trade, nephew of Isidor and Nathan Straus; in Manhattan. The chair of American History, Civilization and Letters, at the Sorbonne, Paris, which was to be inaugurated last week, was Mr. Kohns' gift in memory of his grandfather Lazarus Straus, who although born in France, was made a German citizen after the formation of the Rhenish Palatinate...