Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry on special researches at Harvard. The Sachs Research Fellowship in Fine Arts has been awarded to Miss Eleanor Patterson Spencer, a graduate of Smith College, while two Shady Hill Research Fellowships in Fine Arts were awarded to Miss. Anne Fitzgerald, A.M. Radcliffe '28 and to Chandler Rathfon Post '04, Professor of Greek and Fine Arts since...
...miserable estate. Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself. Washington grew out of its youthful squalor, but recklessly, without unity or good taste. Architecture went on a gingerbread spree?viz. the State, War & Navy Building, the Post Office Department Building. The L'Enfant plan was forgotten...
...running comments, and produced the book-a-year which his enterprising Manhattan publisher demands. Some of the news stories are less news than story and are the more pleasing to an articulate citizen of Marion: "As for town and county news, we have usually heard it at the post office or drug-store two or three days before the Marion Democrat comes out. That, of course, adds to interest in the Democrat, as everybody wants to see how the thing looks in print...
...University,* his skeleton to be mounted and displayed at Washington, his vital organs to be disposed here and there -such was the will of Dr. Daniel Smith Lamb, 85, Army autoptician, who died at Washington last week of pneumonia. During his long medical career he had performed 1,500 post mortems including those of President James Abram Garfield and his assassin Charles Jules Guiteau; and Grant's second Vice President, Henry Wilson,† "I, Daniel Smith Lamb," he wrote in his will, "object to burial or incineration and had rather after my death, and if practicable, before any embalming...
...Author was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, 1883; reached the U. S. in 1900; married Signe Toksvig of Denmark; did some law work in New York, editorial writing in Chicago, made the Friday Literary Review of the Chicago Evening Post the best thing of its kind in the Midwest; went to The New Republic to do books, resigned in 1922 to write books of his own?several historical-sociological works, one so-so novel (That Nice Young Couple), and now Henry the Eighth. He has found his work. Royalties on more than 100,000 copies of Henry are beginning to pour...