Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroaders dared but admire, not imitate, the action of British railroaders who now are buying control of all motor bus lines which conflict with their traffic. In England municipalities own most of the city, suburban and even interurban bus lines. With their authorities, Sir Josiah Stamp and Sir Ralph Wedgewood, able, persuasive financiers both, have had on the whole successful parleys. As for the U. S., the New England railroads have done most to absorb or create bus lines. The severest railroad-bus competition is along the Pacific Coast...
...University Extension has just announced three courses by Harvard men beginning in the second half year. Kenneth C. Cole, instructor in government, will give a course on American government and politics, Michael Karpovich, lecturer on history, will give a course on the history of Russia, and Ralph M. Eaton, professor of philosophy, will lecture on the history of modern philosophy...
Then in through the door that took the typhoon wafted a mild breeze, smiling slightly, somewhat unfamiliar but with an apparent calm assurance: quick-eyed, with greying hair, quietly energetic, deedy. Ralph E. Renaud, until recently managing editor of the New York Evening Post, went to work at the desk of the departed whirlwind. His duties were to be the same but his title was Managing Editor, not Executive Editor. It was expected that Publisher Ralph Pulitzer would not give Renaud so free a hand as he had given Swope...
...fierce joy in games of omniscience. But Renaud might confidently give Swope a half-column handicap in a contest of humor. He edited the college humorous magazine, Chapparal, in his undergraduate days and is reputed no small wit. During an absence of Don Marquis from the Evening Post, Ralph Renaud conducted his funny column and made it just as funny. The most famed Renaud epigram: "It's not the heat, it's ihe stupidity...
Married. Richard Harold Saxon Tudor Bold, songster of Earl Carroll's Vanities, great-grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, descendant of English Kings (Harold the Saxon, Richard the Bold); and Rae Gardner, Colonial scioness, of Albany, N. Y.; in Greenwich, Conn...