Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glassful of reminiscences, anecdotes and essays devoted to "persons and places, many of them obscure, about which I have occasionally told my friends over a glass of sherry. . . ." Son of a shirt & blouse manufacturer, Philosopher Edman still lives in the neighborhood where he was born and brought up, a stone's throw from Columbia University. He has "spent a long life" in Carnegie Hall and art galleries, writes light topical verse, travels much in Europe, wears thick glasses, has a bad stomach, and in general exhibits the intellectual precocity, the urbane humor, the tastes and the slightly nervous detachment...
...want to do anything that will remain as a blot on Harvard boys' records," Leahy annouced. The chief intimated that the evidence whereby Joseph Ambrose, James M. Blumgarten, Joh S. Caylor, and Frank Pemberton, Jr., were convicted of "disrupting a public assembly" by Judge Arthur Stone on October 18 was inconclusive...
...told how he had once asked a certain Jerry O'Brien who has lived a stone's throw from Harvard for 50 years why he hated the University. "It isn't a question of me hating them," he replied, "it's Harvard hating...
This week the Duke of Gloucester breaks sod on a hill outside Kampala, capital of Buganda, principal kingdom of Uganda, for the stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English, will teach the arts, science, agriculture, medicine, education, veterinary science and engineering to bright young blacks of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar...
Convicted last October 19 of "disrupting a public assembly" in the Legion "riot" of October 6, Frank Pemberton, Jr., '42, James M. Blumgarten '42, John S. Caylor '42 and Joseph Ambrese '42 will not appear in court today to appeal the verdict handed down by Judge Arthur Stone as had originally been scheduled...