Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report spread through Pennsylvania last week that Robert Elliott, official executioner for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, had collapsed and resigned his posts after doing his lethal duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...
Harvard's canvas, never really idle, any more than is the canvas of any privately owned educational institution, today is spread for the cause of better indoor athletic facilities. That this cause is among the worthiest no visitor to Hemenway will deny. And even an athletic agnostic will be tempted to dig into his pockets if he has ever attempted to take a swim in the so called Big Tree...
...seems, from what Dr. Ludwig himself feels, that in the near future, provided his production remains up to the mark, he will be hard put to it to find a subject for biographical portrait painting. For with the spread of democracy, says Dr. Ludwig, there will no longer be any first class geniuses. Genius will be, so to speak, a community chest from which the expenses of progress will be paid, taking the burden off the individual, and spreading it about upon the shoulders of humanity at large...
...some time "The Student Vagabond" has been giving me a steadily increasing pain in the neck, which has now reached the point where I am going to say something about it. Whoever he is, he displays a narrow spread of vision in his choice of subjects, to say the least. It is quite obvious that he is concentrating in history and literature, and that his two friends are in fine arts and philosophy. Thus far this year there have been, to the best of my knowledge, one reference to a lecture in the division of music, one reference...
Last week the name of James Clement Dunn, long bowed to in Washington, spread through the land. James Clement Dunn, high school graduate, lawyer, Manhattan architect and U. S. Navy lieutenant, entered the State Department after the War. He received assignments to Madrid, Port au Prince, Brussels. Then he went to Washington and it was discovered that he, smooth of hair, chiseled of chin, impeccably attired, was expert at mapping out White House ceremonials. It was he, for example, who lately and finally ranked "the ladies of the land," as follows: Mrs. President, Mrs. Vice President, Mrs. Chief Justice...