Word: shearman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Societe de Gens de Lettres, resigned from the post of Solicitor General? of the U. S. which he had held since July 1, 1921. Previous to that he had been head of Beck, Crawford & Harris, Manhattan law firm. Before that he had been 14 years a member of Shearman & Sterling, one of the most powerful law firms in the history of Manhattan. Previously he had been Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. (1900-03) and a District Attorney in his home state, Pennsylvania...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will make a departure this year from its usual line of productions when it presents on the evenings of December 19 and 20 two ancient English Miracle Plays, "The Pageant of the Shearman and Taylors", both from "The Coventry Cycle". These two plays will be supplemented by several scenes from "The Salutation and Conception" from "The Hegge Cycle". All three of these primitive beginnings of the English drama,--dating as they do from a period long before Shakespeare was to give it its upward impetus,--reflect with striking vividness the curious mixture of simple piety and homely...