Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief & Mrs. Coolidge to the Mellon mansion near the smoky fork of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers. In the morning they breakfasted with the Secretary's brother, Richard B. Mellon, in another Mellon mansion. Then President Coolidge drove through the streets to visit, among other places, the Fort Pitt blockhouse and the Washington Cross-his Chief of Staff (see p. 10). a time when George Washington was swept off a raft in the icy Allegheny and almost drowned...
...could be gathered again. These, a gay jumble of antique anecdotes, had been joined and backed with gauze so that they might last perhaps forever. The manuscript of An Account of Corsica had been preserved intact, as had letters from Boswell to his wife, to his sons, to William Pitt, to William Temple, to Edmund Burke, to Edmund Malone, to Isabella de Zuylen ("Zelide"), to Samuel Johnson...
...first, entitled "Relations Between Mexico and the United States" was led by A. E. de Los Monteros. In the second, Miss Rhoda McCullock, of the national Y. M. C. A. propounded the theory that life is primarily for human enjoyment with spasms of discord and disease, and H.-Pitt Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary spoke of human life as a service to mankind. He showed how an emergence of the two theories of self statisfaction and service makes the contented...
...that William Pitt commissioned Jeffrey Amherst, already a seasoned campaigner of 41, as major general with the British colonial forces in America. After the taking of Louisburg that July, Amherst was promoted to full command of all these forces. After the fall of Montreal he was made Governor General of British North America. If indeed he "looked around for more when he was through," he found all he sought, for the Indians under Pontiac gave him more trouble than all his other campaigns put together, in fact had much the best of it. He was made governor of Virginia...
...Almanack. Buskin and Roosevelt were 24 when they composed, respectively, Modern Painters and The War of 1812. John Jay was Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court at 44. Charles James Fox was a junior lord of admiralty, a thorn in George Ill's side, at 21. William Pitt, Britain's prime minister for 17 years, assumed office at 24, having previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. At 20, Alexander Hamilton was a leading authority on government; at 24, conceived the National Bank. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence at 33. Robert Peel's name was great...