Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discover what George III meant by "coast" the Privy Council turned to the first great English dictionary, work of that inspired if pompous king of 18th Century letters, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Once George III encountered the great Doctor in the Royal Library, and very considerately shouted in his ear during a brief audience, knowing him to be deaf. The Privy Council cited the dictionary of Dr. Johnson as defining what George III meant by "coast" as follows: "The edge or margin of land next to the sea [and also], a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking towards...
...legs lay straight out before him under the bed blankets. But they felt crossed and he could not move them. They were paralyzed. So was his bladder and his throat and his diaphragm. Two men whom he knew?fellow employes of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois (Samuel Insull, Chairman) ?stood at either side of his body. With their hands they were pushing down on his chest and squeezing air out of his lungs. When they let go, a little air would whistle back into his lungs...
...Love of Sunya (Gloria Swanson). Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, bequeather of radio outfits to disabled veterans and radio music to the U. S., invited Manhattan celebrities to the opening of his new "cathedral of motion picture," world's largest theatre. They came-the Mayor, actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment...
...Road to Xanadu" the long awaited work on Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Professor G. L. Lowes '05 is to be published on April 27. For the past seven or eight years Professor Lowes has been engaged in an exhaustive study of Coleridge manuscripts and books relating to the life and works of the poet...
...Samuel Landfair Rosenbery 2L. of Madison, Wisconsin, a graduate of Yale in 1924 has been elected president of the Legal Aid Society for the coming year. He succeeds Brooks Potter...