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Word: sinnott (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jacket, black skirt and yellow hair-ribbon, chasing down the aisles of the House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn in as his House page, for that one day. She earned a U. S. Treasury check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goober's Girl | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...suggestion that girl pages as a regular thing might brighten up Congress, Doorkeeper Sinnott, thinking of cloakroom conversations he has heard, threw up his hands, exclaimed, "It just wouldn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Goober's Girl | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...following men have contributed their services to the building of those who may prove to be tomorrow's great scientists and athletes: Richard Holder '40 and Donald MacD. Thurber '40 in radio broadcasting;. Theodore L. Lipin '42, Clifford S. Goodman, Jr. '42, Francis E. Condon '41, John Sinnott, Jr. '39, and Carl Weihl '42 in chemistry; Richard D. Schleuer '40 and Robert W. Hartle '42 in photography; R. Tucker Abbott '42 in nature study; Dewey K. Zeigler '41; Elliot Silverman IG in astronomy; David J. Myerson '40 in the study of guinea pigs; Eugene F. Putas '40 in ichthyology; Robert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. Sends Out Teachers To Aid Peabody Settlement Boys | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

...Hanford '41, N. K. Hardenbergh '40, F. R. Harnden '39, D. O. Ives '41, B. J. Jacobson '39, Capt. J. M. Johanson '39, R. W. B. Lewis '39, H. P. Mendel '40, A. W. Page, Jr. '40, G. W. Phillips '39, J. A. Rousmaniere '40, R. Scully '40, J. Sinnott, Jr. '39, H. P. Williams, Jr. '39, J. P. Willetts '41, R. Witkin '39, and Manager D. C. Goodrich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten Soccer Team Gets 19 Major Letters This Year | 12/7/1938 | See Source »

...Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon of Boy Scouts to protect the emblems. Last week Newark's Postmaster John J. Sinnott gave way, removed the seals and replaced them with white marble stars. Said Postmaster Sinnott aggressively: "And those stars don't mean anything in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Superpatriot | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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