Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Stokes is not only one of the most important but one of the shrewdest museum presidents in the U. S. An oldline Quaker, independently wealthy, his personal hobby is collecting Pennsylvania Dutch furniture and anecdotes. Friends say that for years he has carried on a private war with an old lady in Kansas who owns and refuses to sell a rare Windsor chair that matches one in his home. His favorite story is of a rival collector who bargained skillfully with a farmer for a fine bedstead, lost it when the farmer's wife said: "We haven...
Editorship of the Dispensatory has been in the hands of one family since the first volume appeared in 1833. First editor was Dr. George Bacon Wood (1797-1879)> Philadelphia Quaker, physician and pharmacologist. Next came Dr. Horatio Charles Wood (1841-1920), his Quaker nephew, a pharmacologist and neurologist. His Presbyterian grandnephew, the present Dr. Horatio Charles Wood, then took over the job. Last week, when he stacked the first Dispensatory on his desk beside the last, Pharmacologist Wood was looking at a proud scientific family monument...
Small, fiery, once given to soup-bowl haircuts and dark Quaker garments, he has been called "the Little Giant'' for his resemblance to Orator Stephen A. Douglas...
...Artist West, Pennsylvania Quaker, was a year younger than John Copley, became the second president of Britain's Royal Academy. He was an American painter only by accident of birth, did no important work until he had left the Colonies for good, circa...
Final dates for the 1939 and 1940 encounters were also set yesterday by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. The 1939 Harvard-Penn game will be played here October 21, and the following year the Crimson Quaker clash will be in Philadelphia on November 9, the Saturday following election...