Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table sat Management in the person of Mr. Pelley, backstopped by such railroad notables as Erie's Charles Eugene Denney, Pennsylvania's Martin Withington Clement, Illinois Central's Downs, Union Pacific's Carl Raymond Gray, Santa Fe's Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, St. Paul's Henry Alexander Scandrett. On the other side of the table sat able, popular Chairman George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association supported by such labor leaders as Vice President G. E. Joselyn of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, President James A. Phillips of the Order of Railway Conductors...
...Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific and All Points West, 5%, Jan. 1, 2000. Something to leave to posterity. Cost $35, sold...
...everything in Egypt, and made people pay to get in and out. ... As pressagent. St. Matthew-he and Judas were the only two Disciples that could read and write, and he knew everything that was going on from the inside. As coach, the most important thing of all, St. Paul. He was quick-witted, of powerful physique, an upholder of sportsmanship. ... He believed in buying good equipment, for he said, 'Put on the whole armor of Christ...
...FATHER PAUL GAUGUIN-Pola Gauguin-Knopf ($3-75) When Paul Gauguin died of syphilis in 1903, few were really sorry. He had always been a lone wolf: as stockbroker, family man, runaway painter he had always pursued his own proud, peculiar way, and his enemies were thicker than his friends. When he died alone in his hut in the Marquesas Islands, his wife and their five children, long strangers to him, were half the world away in Denmark. Since 1903 many a critic has climbed over the fence and given Gauguin's painting nearly as high marks...
...youngest son Pola gave a more authoritative and respectable version of his lone-wolf father's career. His narrative lacked Maugham's melodrama, also its moonshine, showed his absentee father as partly heroic, partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin died. His widow...