Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excitedly the figure in the rawhide boots advanced: "You mean Black Jack* Pershing. Well, shake hands with your old private that used to peel potatoes for you. Yes, Sir, General-in the Sioux Indian campaign, buck private in Seventh Cavalry at Fort Niobrara. Black Jack himself! Yes, sir, all the ducks you want. I'll be danged...
Naturally no comparison can be drawn between the Laundress-Empress and Mrs. Rosa Lewis.* The Seventh Edward, though jovial, was no such humorist as Peter the Great. He merely liked his tidbits well prepared. When Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented her cook, Mrs. Rosa Lewis,± to Edward VII (the Prince of Wales) and told him she was a good cook he never doubted it. "Damme," said Edward, "She takes more pains with a cabbage than with a chicken. . . . She gives me nothing sloppy, nothing colored up to dribble...
...were messengers bearing news. "LET THERE BE LIGHT" was the first message to sweep across the face of the earth, according to the book of Genesis; and God, Himself, was the delivering Postman, and for six days God created and delivered messages to the earth, and He, on the seventh day, rested." Thus began the first of many rhapsodies, conceived by U. S. Postmaster W. J. O'Callaghan of Nashville, Tenn., to sell the U. S. mail service to Nashvillians. The emanations of Dr. O'Callaghan addressed to "Mr. Nashville Businessman" ran on exuberantly, telling of Cyrus...
...industrious, however, all roads lead to eminence. Last week Young Brother, plain "Mister" Louis Bertram Hopkins, was installed as seventh president of Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.), in the presence of august trustees, judges and nine college presidents, including Big Brother, the learned Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth, who greatly enjoyed delivering an inaugural address...
...Alleghanies. The new plan examinations have since been found to have other advantages and have superceded everywhere to large extent the old style admission requirements. Recently President Lowell further extended the principle of broadening geographically the character of the undergraduate body by the institution of the first seventh rule, by which the first seventh of a graduating class in specified grade A schools may be admitted without examination. The whole movement is on the one hand, toward wider geographical distribution, and on the other toward admission requirements emphasizing the general culture and possibilities of candidates rather than on the mastery...