Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...periwigged gallants, for instance, have crude methods of bathing. The great lexicographer Samuel Johnson, whom Peter meets, only "thunders out a few platitudes." And when Peter absentmindedly reaches for a cigaret he finds only a miniature cabinet. On the other hand, he creates a reputation for brilliance simply by using, as though they were his own, remarks from Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and "some cheap epigrams by a fellow named Oscar Wilde...
Engaged. James Waterman Wise, publicist (Jews Are Like That), son of Stephen Samuel Wise (famed "liberal" Rabbi); and a Miss Elizabeth Halle Kraus; in Manhattan...
...magazine section of the New'York Herald Tribune. Daniel Guggenheim and Nicholas Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola Negri, Alice Terry and Claire Luce among her shipmates...
...Samuel Instill. On the opening night he arrived, pearls in vest, gardenia in buttonhole, an hour before curtain time to receive congratulations on his new opera house...
...wind things up properly Driver Cooke gave a dinner. Beside him sat Chancellor Samuel Paul Capen, son of Elmer Hewitt Capen (onetime Tufts College President), acquired with the new campus in 1922. Stirringly spoke Trustee Cooke: "You are going to be the keepers of the city's honor in your lifetime." Of Chancellor Capen's predecessor he said: "Think of good old Charley Norton, serving with unflagging energy and faith for so many years! Maybe somewhere he is listening in tonight...