Word: ralph
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...grownup role in society, children were dressed like miniature adults. And since all good Calvinists looked upon wealth as a sign that they were among God's elect, those clothes were frequently expensive, ornate garments in the latest European styles. In Jeremiah Theus' 1753 formal portrait of Ralph Izard, for instance, the young man wears an immaculate gentleman's outfit, complete with ruffled shirt and silver-trimmed tricorn hat. All of twelve years old, he is painted as lord of the manor, stiffly gesturing toward his property...
Elliott, a political philosophy scholar and Ph.D. dissertation adviser to diplomats and foreign policy experts including Henry A. Kissinger '50, Pierre Trudeau and Ralph Bunche, taught and conducted research at Harvard from 1925 to 1963. He continued his research and writing at his home in Virginia after his retirement...
...Project brought massive murals to American cities and the Writers Project recorded the lives of "ordinary" Americans. Not only did a galaxy of stars emerge from the Theatre Project, but similar galaxies emerged from other Projects as well--Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Nelson Algren, Studs Terkel, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison from the Writers Project; Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning from the Art Project...
...Ralph Nader Washington...
...voters right to the polls, watched while they voted and then paid them on the spot within a few yards of election officials. Outside the polls, the vote-buyers kept "bird dogs" on patrol to make sure that everything went smoothly. At one poll, it was reported, Leesville Mayor Ralph McRae Jr. ordered onlookers to back away. When the FBI arrived because of complaints from the Wilson forces, the payoff center was moved to a dead-end street. There, under a towering pine (called, yes, the money tree), some $10,000 in cash was disbursed by two men while...