Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catherine the Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware of such a career, gave her a rouble in charity, and dismissed her.' She refused to go whereupon Jones 'took her gently by the hand...
Fine Arts 14c, a course in Romanesque Architecture, will be given by Professor Porter as a full course, and with the consent of the instructor as a half course in either half-year...
Fine Arts 14a, a course on the Mediaeval Book, given by Professor Porter, will be omitted...
Detective Thomas Tunney, brother of champion Fisticuffer Gene Tunney, brought some comfort to perturbed police when he apprehended one Charles Colze, who, while employed in the Natural History Museum of Manhattan as porter, had carried off eight fine bird-of-paradise plumes...
Cudgels were picked up variously by U. S. commentators. Some cried, in effect: What about Author Christopher Morley? What about David R. Porter, international secretary of the Y. M. C. A.? What about C. H. Foster, long U. S. Consul at Vienna? And Charles D. Mahaffie, director of Bureau of Finance of the Interstate Commerce Commission? And John James Tigert himself, U. S. Commissioner of Education? These and many another Rhodes Scholar are as well known as able President Aydelotte, or should be. Rhodes Scholars have distinguished themselves right and left?unless "running the country" be taken to mean...