Word: penfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company has had as many ups & downs as an old inner tube. For the last fiscal year (ending October 31), with Son J. Penfield ("Shorty") Seiberling moving up to the presidency and septuagenarian "F. A." to the chairmanship, the company is expected to show a profit running into "six figures...
...Evanston City Council concluded that it did not have any jurisdiction over lions, either. Then Alderman Eddy S. Brandt, of the Sixth Ward, rose and made a motion that "lions and tigers and other wild animals" be kept to the west of Evanston. Mayor Henry D. Penfield added: "I now move that the reference include the Evanston Lion's Club." The Council shouted approval, but the motion, as amended, was hastily shuttled off to the judiciary committee, leaving King Tuffy still in Evanston...
That such a worthy painter should not receive his due recognition evoked an angry reply from Stuart D. Preston, Class of 1906. "Shades of the Gay Nineties," he begins, "those murals in the breakfast room of Randolph are the work of Edward Penfield, one of the best known artists...
...rooms in college, he continued, were complete without a few Gibson Girls (painted on the walls, of course), and some of the works of Penfield. Every month, indeed, Scribner's Magazine issued a large poster done by the aforesaid Mr. Penfield...
Does any TIME reader contend that Drs. Penfield, Peet, Brickner or Adson is not handsome? A standing joke among U. S. physicians is the inexplicable fact that most U. S. brain surgeons are notably good looking...