Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Following me came the remainder of the first twelve, in order: Louis Marshall, famed New York lawyer and authority on constitutional law; Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, first Earl of Reading, Viceroy and Governor General of India, ' holding the highest position, next to King George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim...
...Rufus William Sprague Jr. '96, A.B., LL.B., New York Practice...
...Rufus William Sprague Jr. '96 of New York has been appointed lecturer on New York practice at the Law School for next year, and Mr. Theodore F. T. Plucknett of Stafford, England, a recent holder of the Choate Fellowship, has been appointed instructor in legal history. Other new Law School appointments include those of Mr. William Edward McCurdy as instructor in law, Mr. Bancroft Gheradi Davis '85 as lecturer on mining law, Mr. Lucius Ward Bannister Law '96 as lecturer on water rights, and Mr. Joseph Lewis Stackpole '95 as lecturer on patent...
...children of Rufus are three-Diana, the eldest, is cold, fascinating, a little cynical, dangles her feet over innumerable precipices, and has always managed to pull them back in time; Claudia, the second daughter, is an instance of war-marriage in haste and equally hasty repentance; the youngest is Sheila, of the jazz...
...Kaynes are early victims of their generation. Rufus becomes involved in a tangle of bad appearances, bad investments, blackmail, disgrace, resulting in his financial ruin...