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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most people spell Shakspere Shakespeare, yet one of the world's greatest authorities on the great poet was publicly spelling it Shakespere. The dictionary allows either. Ripley has a page of spellings...
...start of this week the market gave itself a breathing spell, the list climbed a few points back up the ladder. Meanwhile from a prime U.S. capitalist came a remark reminiscent of Andrew Mellon's famed quip early in 1929 that "gentlemen prefer bonds." Said Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp.: "I think that the present situation can be made very serious unless people stock, look and listen...
...University, from 1910 to 1933, George Lyman Kittredge '82, the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and practically everything else connected with English literature, and Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher--Harvard names to conjure with, but the Class of 1941 will not come under the magic of their spell...
...Rochester-city of optical glass, dentists' supplies, kodaks, typewriter ribbons and rich (Eastman-endowed), up-&-coming University of Rochester-the National Puzzlers' League last week met in convention and concocted an anagram: "I, LAITY, CAN CHEER ATOMIC SCHEME." These letters, rearranged, also spell "Oh, Science! May it teach miracle." This puzzling tribute was aimed at a far greater contemporary assemblage of puzzle solvers, the 94th convention of the American Chemical Society, the comings & goings of whose 3,461 delegates made the lobby of Rochester's Hotel Seneca resemble a Manhattan subway at rush hour...
...this was raw material for a very pretty business feud, but President Shaughnessy declined to make it into a finished product. He kept his head, kept his own counsel and kept Transamerica on the board through a temporary technicality. By last week this breathing spell had cooled everybody off. The Exchange gracefully came down off its high horse, "requested" the listing; "A. P." as gracefully agreed. President Shaughnessy remained in office and San Francisco's brokers strode down Nob Hill jauntily once more...