Word: roger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago Ivy Chamberlain, handsome, Junoesque wife of then Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, had an idea for a great Italian Art exhibition to be held in London. She formed a committee on which were art wise Sir Joseph Duveen, Roger Fry, Viscount Lascelles (Princess Mary's husband), Sir William Llewellyn. They wrote a letter to Premier Mussolini who became interested, put Dr. Modigliani in charge of a committee...
...beaten in its effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke, who had urged it to "stop bickering, adjourn and stay adjourned," was loudly denounced by Senator Borah. Cried the Idaho Senator: ". . . Utterly false and malicious statement! Who is this Babson? A man serving special interests...
...Associates of Lowell House are Alfred North Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, Edward Kenard Rand '94, Professor of Latin, Roger Bigelow Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History, Archibald Thompson Davison '05, Professor of Music, Robert Pierpont Blake, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Widener Library, and Harlow Shapley. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory...
...Manhattan, Roger Maloney, 21, apprehended with a stolen automobile, explained that he had taken it because he wanted to drive to Schenectady to vote...
...Harvard and Yale are playing football again. 1929 will be remembered as the date of the renaissance of Harvard football."--Roger Birtwell, Boston Post...