Word: simon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Engaged. George D. Simon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Simon (apparel), of Manhattan, to Mary Alice Van Ells of Manhattan...
...Beta Kappa, with one of the highest scholastic records ever made at his Alma Mater. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School, but theatrical interests have so far kept him from the practice of Law. As an amateur, he has played the title role in Simon the Cyrenian, by Ridgely Torrence, and the leading male role in Taboo, opposite Margaret Wycherly in Manhattan and Mrs. Patrick Campbell in England. For some weeks he was a professional in the big black musical success, Shuffle Along. Two years ago, he married Miss Eslanda Cardozo Goode, colored, Assistant Pathological Chemist...
...Bernard Mannes Baruch, born Camden, S. C., in 1870. His father, Dr. Simon Baruch, a Spanish Jew, emigrated from Polish Russia, was a field surgeon in Lee's army. His mother was Isabel Wolfe, daughter of a widely respected cotton planter. Bernard entered commerce as a glassware clerk, studied law and medicine, graduated from C. C. N. Y., of which he is now a trustee. When he visited Wall Street and made daily history there he acquired the reputation of "greatest speculator of our generation." Phrases such as "Baruch led the shorts today," or "Baruch, the well-known plunger," appeared...
...writes Simon Louis Katzoff, M. D., Ph. D., of Bridgeport, Conn., in Bernarr Macfadden's magazine called Physical Culture. Among other alleged opponents of "pus-instillers" he cites W. E. Gladstone, Victorian Premier of England. The main arguments are: 1) It is immoral to inject poison into the human body. 2) Smallpox is a filth-disease and hygiene is the sure preventative. 3) Compulsory vaccination is tyrannical...
...picture came from the Simon collection in Berlin and is said to have belonged formerly to the Earl of Carlyle. It is published on page 38 in Kiassiker der Kunst, but at the time of publication was suffering from a darkened varnish which has since been cleaned...