Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jitters, Lawyer, banker, scholar, Fellow of Brown University, 66-year-old Governor Green belongs by birth to Rhode Island's Republican mill-owning class but has cast his lot with plebeian Democrats. Last week he was an old man badly frightened when he asked his State Assembly for: 1) $100,000 to up the State police force from 51 to 1,000 during the emergency; 2) $100,000 more to put 1,000 War veterans under arms; 3) power to close any or all textile mills in the State; 4) power to call in Federal troops, which he said...
...While they may not be the happiest ones, they belong to you in a sense no others will. Try and make something out of them. If your ambition is to become a social success and become a final clubman, do it well. If your ambition is to become a scholar, do it well. If your ambition is to become an athlete, do it well. Or if your ambition is to become a literary light, do it well. While G. K. Chesterton may have said. "What's worth doing, is worth doing poorly," you are more of a person...
...views are liberal but not as far to the left as those of another crack Post-Dispatch news hawk, Paul Y. Anderson, who uses the Nation to blister his conservative adversaries. His successor as No. 1 Post-Dispatchman at the capital is Raymond P. ("Pete") Brandt, a onetime Rhodes Scholar who grew up in Sedalia, Ohio. A good hard-digging reporter, "Pete" Brandt was president of the National Press Club the year Ross headed the Gridiron...
...Author. Paul Engle was born and raised on his father's ranch in Iowa. He went to school at Cedar Rapids, worked lis way through Coe College selling news-Dapers. jerking soda. At the University of Iowa Stephen Vincent Benet gave him encouragement. As a Rhodes Scholar from Iowa he has completed his first year at Oxford (Merton College). Engle likes swimming and horses and is now "writing very hard on a horse novel." A first volume of verse, The Warm Earth, was published in 1933 by the Yale University press in its Younger Poets series...
...medical scholar, Dr. Sweet at once started to dissect the plum-sized mass. Instead of a fleshy knot, he unwrapped a tightly wadded gauze sponge left in Warden Lawes's leg during the rupture operation six years before...