Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copy of "Pickwick Papers," written in parts, includes the original drawings sketched for it. It is commonly and erroneously thought that these drawings were made by Cruickshank. The sketches for the first four numbers of the papers were in fact drawn by Seymour. At this stage he committed suicide, and was succeeded by Buss, who illustrated number five. His plates proved unsatisfactory to Dickens and he was succeeded by Phiz (Hablot K. Brown). He remade the plates for number five and drew sketches for the remaining ones...
Moreover, during the week, 125,000,000 gold marks ($29,745,000) were paid up on the dot to Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert who wrote down this sum as the first half-yearly installment of interest due, for the third reparations year, on the Dawes Plan loans of 5,000,000,000 gold marks. As security for these loans a virtual mortgage is held on the chief units of production comprising the mechanism of German industry...
...Walter Damrosch, presided over a board of judges which marked the young gentlemen's tone, diction, pitch, ensemble, interpretation. Conferring afterwards, the judges declared that the title had been retained by the melodious 1926 champions from Wesleyan University, whose voluntary contribution was "The Long Day Closes," by Arthur Seymour Sullivan. Young gentlemen from the University of Missouri, champions at home, were not downcast when voted second best. They took a train to Washington where they were shown the sights, received at the War Department and White House, treated to lunch, tea, dancing, dinner. Besides Yale, which sang third, Columbia...
...Seymour '17, Secretary to the University on Graduate Affairs, last night made public the names of the candidates for the six vacancies which will occur this spring in the Harvard Board of Overseers, the three positions as Directors of Harvard Alumni Association, and the three posts left vacant on the Harvard Fund Council...
...Slocum '90, E. Hollisher '97, E.H. Wells '97, L.P. Marvin '98, J.W. Prentiss '98, Eliot Wadsworth '98, B.H. Dibblee '99, N.F. Ayer '00, J.P. Jones '02, J.R. Hamlen '04, Chairman of the Executive Committee, John Richardson '08, S.D. Warren '08, H.C. Clark '11, Leverett Saltonstall '14, vice-president, J.W.D. Seymour '17, and D.T.W. McCord '21, acting executive secretary...