Word: preston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elements which Percival Wren molded into a chivalric romance set in his own time, the dying days of the Victorian era. Hs novel forms such exciting dramatic material that countless actors of stage and screen have tried their hand at it. Latest are Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as the "Beau Geste" trio...
Arnold William Pekowsky, Anthony Louis Pellegrini, George Notman Prince, George Shattuck Richardson, Kenneth Irving Richter, Preston Thomas Roberts, Jr., William Joseph Shea, Morris Victor Shelanski, Robert Breckenbridge Sherwood, Donald Baxter Sparrow, John Leslie Stephenson, Robert Platt Ulin, Marc Anthony White, Joseph Abraham Zilber
Adelbert Ames III, William Ames Atchley, Joseph Smith Bigelow, III, John Morton Blum, John Crapo Bullard, Gaelen Lee Felt, John Michael Harrington, Jr., Robert Heywood Hoskins, Edward Eyre Hunt, Jr., Martin Collins Johnson, Allan Lewis Levine, Harold Thayer Meryman, Henry Whitney Munroe, Joseph Crawford Scott, Carl Bryce Seligman, Preston Wood Smith, Jr., John Leland Sosman, John Finley Williamson, Jr., Brooks Wright...
This was too much even for Duke's reverent students. When it was being built, they mocked its "vulgarity," stood a fraternity initiate on the empty pedestal for a whole day with a cigar in his hand. Duke's President William Preston Few had the statue put up anyway, proclaimed himself proud to "do honor to [Buck's] good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...
Meanwhile, many a panicky conservative institution, not knowing quite where to shoot, has laid aside its rifle and taken to firing buckshot. William Preston Few's Duke University, for example, offers no fewer than 739 undergraduate courses, has 35 separate courses in Greek alone...