Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selassie as Underdog of the Year, and of Italy's Dictator Benito ("Just-A-Man") Mussolini as Aggressor of the Year. The other leading characters in the puzzling exhibition included the youthful Front for Idealism, Great Britain's Captain Anthony Eden; his more practical Elder Uncle, Sir Samuel Hoare, who can use the word "we" with more force than most; their boss, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who makes the "we" significant; and France's Premier and magnificent fence-straddler, swarthy Pierre Laval. Laval as Foreign Minister reached an agreement with Just-A-Man in January which Laval...
First editions and other treasures connected with the life and work of Dr. Samuel Johnson are being exhibited this week in the Widener Room of the Memorial Library...
...That Samuel Johnson actually wrote what would today be called "funny-papers" is not beyond belief. In the exhibit is a series of eight hand-colored plates entitled "A Lesson for Spendthrifts." Under seven of these amusing caricatures, which were drawn and engraved by Newton and printed in 1794, are verse stanzas signed by Johnson...
Without blanching, last week Philadelphia's weekly meeting of Methodist clergymen heard Rev. Dr. Samuel Walter Grafflin, 66, a colleague from White Plains, N. Y., declare: ''The Church is spending too much effort reaching the nice little boys instead of the hell-raisers. And while I'm at it, let me say something in favor of that grand old word, hell. I'd like to know the bo who first called that word profane. The ministry could do nothing better than legitimatize it. Hell is the only word...
...players it sends to Harvard, Yale and Princeton than upon its scholarship. Its academic aim has been stated by Arthur Stanwood Pier, its official historian, as "teaching boys to think like other people."* Over this rugged, if not particularly intellectual, school presides as rector and headmaster the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury. Dr. Drury is a tall, stern man with a powerful, sonorous voice. No mixer, he has little contact with the school's 440 boys until they reach the Sixth Form, when he has them in to Sunday tea. Boys call him "The Drip." Once a year...