Word: sage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman's name was then inscribed "leading all the rest" in a book of gold and he was saluted as the Abou Ben Adhem of New York City. The old gentleman was Robert Weeks de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Russell Sage Foundation, of the Welfare Council of New York City, of the American Federation of Arts, of the Survey Associates, of the National Housing Association, of the Charity Organization Society. The New York Times called him "Captain of Philanthropy" and the New York Sun called him "First Citizen of the First City...
...Louisville, Ky. Times made a sage remark: "It is said that the cigaret is the first thing in the United States to reach the 100,000,000,000 mark. How about the matches that lighted them...
...Uncle Alf. In the greatest fox hunt the state has ever known, Tennessee honored its beloved old sportsman and one time (1920-22) governor, Alfred Alexander Taylor. And up in the rugged foothills of the Smoky Mountains, on the northeastern tongue of Tennessee, the rugged 80-year-old "Sage of Happy Valley" played jovial host to the folk who had finally elected him their chief only eight years before...
Since 1913 the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology has been studying the effects of different diets. Messrs. Stefansson and Anderson were particularly good subjects because during Arctic adventures Stefans son lived about seven years on meat alone, while Anderson ate nothing else for over a year. There was no danger of the imaginary headaches or indigestion that might beset beef-eating beginners. Both men lost a little weight at the start and then trained back to the pink...
...authentic co-leader with William Butler Yeats of the "Gaelic Renaissance," Sage Russell, now lecturing throughout the U. S., commands respect for the following judgment: ". . . The first phase of great civilization is that of mastery of the plastic and material arts. America is now passing through this phase: witness her buildings that scrape the skies, rails thrown across a continent. Your next phase will be literature. I believe a gigantic literature...