Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Sewall; Early New England Historians," Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...Reverend Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association, Boston, Mass...
Resolutions. In the days of Samuel Gompers, a routine resolution of A. F. of L. conventions was one demanding recognition of Soviet Russia. But no such resolution came forward last year or last week. When hypervigilant Los Angeles police arrested two alleged Reds at the convention's door, the delegates scoffed at police and prisoners alike...
...Connor, 79, M. P. and a veteran of Fleet Street (which in London parlance is synonymous for journalism), was one of the guests of honor. As he strode into the low, planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...
Other famed-people who ate there were Voltaire, Bolingbroke, Pope, Congreve. But, perhaps, none were so famed in his day as Samuel Johnson, who was wont to congregate there with his cronies Oliver Goldsmith & Thomas Chatterton. The Doctor always made for the left hand room and sat at a table near the window?a table and seat that is now pointed out with great pride to visitors. It is related that he would sit there for hours looking at the buxom dairymaids making cheese, afterwards explaining the merits of his famed dictionary to his friends. Exhausting this subject...