Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formal negotiations were broken off a fortnight ago in a deadlock. Last week even informal negotiations between the high contracting parties were dropped; John L. Lewis, leader of the miners, wrote to Samuel D. Warriner, leader of the operators, saying that he did not want to exchange any more opinions unless the operators were willing to abandon their position...
...homespun and thick boots. This man's eyes can "snap and sparkle . . . beam with sympathy." His laugh is infectious. He has just written a book and asks the stripling (Johnston Forbes-Robertson) to take it to his journalist-father for criticism. The book is Erewhon; the shy man, Samuel Butler...
...Forbes-Robertson mouths to feed and Johnston, the eldest, though speedily mastering his painting, cannot refuse a salaried part in Mary, Queen o' Scots at the Princess Theatre. Other engagements follow and the young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...
...better position to know the facts about public utility enterprises than Samuel Insull of Chicago, President of the Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago, which controls the entire electric lighting business of the city. Accordingly, when Mr. Insull expressed his opinion regarding the recent astonishing speculation in utility stocks, the stock exchange hearkened and gave heed...
...preach like Henry Ward Beecher, and lead the good burghers in the way of salvation. So this holy borough is known as "The City of Churches." There are 105 books explaining why this is so. There is a list of famous preachers to justify it: Beecher himself. Lyman Abbott, Samuel Hanson Cox. and a score of others such as Farley, Loughlin, Carroll, Storrs, Davis, Littlejohn, Hall, Darlington, Talmage, Cuyler, Kinsolving...