Word: patricians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some spectators may have been amused by the WPA's sponsorship of a play exalting a Roman hero who spits on the common people. But none could deny that this drama of a patrician banished from Rome for not truckling to the plebs, and joining with his former enemies to wreck his own country, builds up in massive blocks of action. And none could deny that at least once-when the hero's mother comes to plead with him to spare his native Rome-the drama unfolds an intensely human scene...
...Worthington Scranton of Scranton, whose patrician features and baronial name do not prevent her from wearing all the fantastic headgear which fashion prescribes, is in many ways symbolic of the modern Republican Party. As National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania, Mrs. Scranton last year not only listened religiously to Alf Landon on the radio, but welcomed him back to the State of his birth. Last week, along with 19 other members of the National Committee's executive committee, a very serious Mrs. Worthington Scranton was to be seen daily entering & leaving a conference room on the first floor of St. Louis...
...Philadelphia. A well-trained boys' choir should study together, sing together every day, live together in as complete harmony as they sing. Last April Rev. Dr. John Mockridge, ruddy high-church rector of Philadelphia's patrician St. James's Episcopal Church, had 30 boy sopranos selected from 97 applicants in Philadelphia public schools, put them at his congregation's expense in the swank Episcopal Academy on City Line Avenue. Further weeding brought the group down to 20. Dr. Mockridge taught the boys the Episcopal service, had them attend his church in a body every Sunday during...
...Filling out his marriage license when he wed Mary Laughlin of the old Pittsburgh steel family in 1902, crusty, patrician President Robinson listed his occupation as ''gentleman...
...wasting money. When Alumnus Dennett ('04) went back to Williams three years ago from a professorship at Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs to succeed President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th President of the U. S., he was shocked to find that his small, patrician college was piling up steady deficits. President Dennett installed a budget system, launched a money-raising program for Williams' library, laboratories, teachers' salaries, scholarships. But he found 73-year-old Senior Trustee Warren, who commutes 140 mi. to Williamstown from his Boston office, interested not only in Williams...