Word: sawyerism
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...first eight stories form a series of panels on the jazz-age adolescent, of both sexes-Author Fitzgerald's version of the Tom Sawyer-Penrod legend. Some others...
...Winsauer '36 heads the committee in charge, which also includes Jules Bricken '35, Robert E. Eichler, Jr. '36, James T. Kilbreth, Jr. '36, David MacDonald '36, James C. McNamara, Jr., '36, Branford P. Millar '35, Henry B. Sawyer, Jr. '36, Douglas C. Scott '35, and Edward G. Smith...
Over the entrance of the 30-story American Furniture Mart Building on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive is a bas-relief of a woodman hacking a tree into logs, a sawyer cutting the logs into lumber, a carpenter fashioning the lumber into furniture. Under this symbolic device last week hurried thousands of furniture buyers from big stores and little throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros...
...Congress could promote Dr. Calver to anything it liked, but that he would not pay him one cent more than he gets now. The hindrance apparently is not insurmountable. Congressmen recalled that President Wilson made Commander Gary Travers Grayson a rear-admiral, that President Harding made Dr. Charles E. Sawyer a brigadier-general, that President Coolidge made Major James Francis Coupal a colonel, that President Hoover made Lieut.-Commander Joel Thompson Boone a commander. If Presidents can have their personal physicians promoted over seniors in service, Representatives and Senators saw no reason why they could not do likewise with...
...Sawyer (1875) Mark Twain...