Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime Alice Cohen and her husband, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, were commanded to dine, last week, with the King-Emperor, born George of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. As the imperially commanded pair rode in a smart closed carriage attended by postilions from Windsor railroad station to Windsor Castle, they were cheered as the returning Viceroy and Vicereine of India. For them times have changed...
Indian Retrospect. Lord Irwin succeeds as Viceroy the former Lord Chief Justice of England, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, first Earl of Reading, son of the late Joseph Isaacs, a merchant in the city of London. Lord Reading is perhaps the classic example cited to prove that ability and application suffice to catapult the merest of commoners to the heights in this 20th Century...
...colleges: Professor Guy A. Tawney of Cincinnati, President of the western branch of the American Philosophical Society; President John G. Hibben of Princeton; Professors Alexander Meiklejohn of Wisconsin, Edward S. Ames of Chicago, Ernest Albee of Cornell, Jared S. Moore of Western Reserve, Dickinson S. Miller of Smith, Rufus M. Jones of Haverford, Ourant Drake of Vassar, G. W. Cunningham of Texas, John Drew of Columbia and Will Durant of the Labor Temple School, Manhattan (whose extensive work, The Story of Philosophy, will shortly be published), and their equals...
...distinctive characteristics. The first, a Venezuelan who becomes a citizen of Chile, apart from his great pedagogic work which makes of him one of the greatest figures in the history of education in Hispanic America is the author of a Grammar of the Spanish Language, with notes, later, by Rufus Jose Cuervo which is still considered the most perfect and most practical for the knowledge of our own language...
...Rufus Daniel Isaacs, first Earl of Reading, is however about to retire as Viceroy (TIME, Nov. 9). He had every reason to desire that this most dangerous of recent Indian scandals should be cleared up in a manner creditable to himself. There were those, moreover, who hinted that the Viceroy bears the Maharaja a grudge because he would not yield a point of precedence at official functions to the former Alice Edith Cohen, now Lady Reading. Last week all the ramifications of this affair suddenly quieted...