Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Cameron Morrison, Governor of North Carolina to Mrs. Sarah Watts, widow of George W. Watts, millionaire philanthropist; at Durham...
...Catteraugus philanthropist turns out to be the grandfather of the family governess. Furthermore, there is a count present who is exposed as a chef before the play is done. Fashion is fluffy with crinolines and sentiment. Many of the stock characters, and some of the lines, are still doing reliable service, barbered in the prevailing mode. But playwrights no longer luxuriate in soliloquies, nor hurl asides at the audience like bombs...
...took the lead in seeing that the Government was supplied with copper at half the prevailing market price. Before he was 40 he had crossed the Atlantic 70 times. He is a patron of Art, Music, Literature, horse breeding, horticulture, an excellent geographer and anthropologist, a noted philanthropist...
...Cambridge Trust Company for collection. In due course of time the Columbus bank reported that its only knowledge of the matter was through the receipt of similar checks made out to a score of Y. M. C. A. organizations all over the country. No trace of the anonymous philanthropist could be found...
...Author. Journalist, editor, novelist, short story writer, playwright, philanthropist, essayist - Theodore Dreiser has been each in turn. He entered newspaper work at the age of 21. After a few months on the Chicago Daily Globe, he became dramatic editor and traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and subsequently traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Republic. He was for some years employed in special editorial work for Harper's, Century and other large publishing houses. From 1907 to 1910 he was editor-in-chief of the Butterick publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea, English Delineator...