Word: selden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold. When he could stand his own snuffling no longer, H. R. H. daringly extracted a handkerchief from beneath his imposing, ermine-collared robe and blew his nose. "It was tremendously human and so very much like the Prince," cabled the New York Time's sensitive Charles A. Selden. "That white handkerchief served as a most restful spot for the eyes. . . . General Dawes served the same useful purpose. . . . His Chicago full evening dress was a relieving splash of black and white against the blue, green, gold and scarlet of the court dress worn by other envoys...
...hearty and so hale, Drink her down, drink her down, Drink her down, down, down! Celebrated in song and story is Yale's interest in the wassail cup. Last week two faculty members at New Haven-Professor Yandell Henderson of applied physiology and Professor R. Selden Rose, head of the Spanish department and chairman of the University Athletic Association-each made scholarly contributions to the art and practice of drinking. Professor Yandell, interested in the toxicological aspect of tippling, announced in the Yale News that a tosspot would have to down two litres (one-half gal.) of 4% beer...
...Percy Selden Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store) ... Comm. Sc.D...
...mouth of a farmer of decidedly Hebraic aspect drawn last week by able Cartoonist Will Johnstone in the New York World. Cartoonist Johnstone's fantasy was inspired by the annual report of the Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc., whose president : no less eminent a Jew than Percy Selden Straus, famed Manhattan merchant-philanthropist (R. H. Macy & Co. Inc.). The report declared, to the surprise of Cartoonist Johnstone, that there are now some 90,000 Jewish farmers in the U. S. as against some 1,000 when the Agricultural Society was founded 30 years...