Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generations. No one who is interested in art, artists, politicians, politics, kings, queens, lords and commons, Englishmen and Frenchmen, history and literature, soldiers and sailors, will be able to read through these two large books wirthout asking for more. As a chronicler, Farington has been compared to the great Samuel Pepys. The comparison favors Farington if viewed from an informative standpoint; but as literature, using the word with meticulous precision, the Diary falls far below the immortal works of Pepys...
...David on Mount Ophel, near Jerusalem, were discovered by the joint expedition of the London Daily Telegraph and the Palestine Exploration Fund, under Prof. R. A. S. Macalister. The remains of a Jebusite wall and tower they found are believed to be the mysterious "Millo" mentioned in II Samuel, V, 9, "And David built round about from Millo and inward." The evidence appears to show that "Millo" was a tower or fort which existed even before the Hebrew conquest...
...fame of Hell's Kitchen as it used to be? Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly-charitable men's hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th Street by the Harlem River, with its stuttering hunched proprietor who kept savage Great Danes in his yard-Mr. Dreiser can take you to them all and many other singular nooks beside. A guide who has had extraordinary opportunities for observing every changing aspect...
...Samuel Guy Inman urged withdrawal of the U. S. Naval Mission in Brazil in order to stop the armament race in South America...
...Wells and J. J. Maher, Vice-Chairmen, is as folows: John Wright Adie of Chestnut Hill; Henry Goddard Bradlee of Brookline; Samuel Willard Bridges Jr. of Newton; Thayer Cumings of Bedford Hills, New York; George Wallace Foster of West Roxbury; Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham; Columbus O'Donnell Iselin of New York City; George Beere Moynahan of Mattapan; Perry Rogers Pease of Hempstead, Long Island, New York; Harold Irving Pratt of New York City; Kenneth Morse Rogers of Dorchester; Hovey Edward Slayton of Manchester, New Hampshire; Donald Spencer of Cambridge; Donald LeBosquet Sweeney of Newton Highlands; Albert Tilt...