Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this phenomenon of penurious timidity is mystifying. To the case-hardened Bostonian, it is only wearily disgusting. Politics is conceivably the explanation. Politics was the landscape-gardener for the Esplanade, the recreation director for Franklin Park, the marine zoologist for the Aquarium at City Point, and the engineer for Stuart Street extension. Politics was the architect for a beautiful bridge spanning the Charles at Massachusetts Avenue. Politics was the name of the hard-headed business man that quashed the project and then threw away some bushels of taxpayers money reinforcing the old ugly structure. In the present case, Politics does...
...Stuart P. Sherman - "Since Charles Dickens lashed us in Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes, no other novelist, English or American, has given us a satirical castigation so thorough or so deserved...
Sued for Divorce. By the Rev. Stuart Lawrence Tyson, 51, B. A., M. A., D. D., onetime Honorary Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, author of The Teaching of Our Lord as to the Indissolubility of Marriage: Mrs. Anna Gertrude Tyson. He charged cruelty...
...slightly humorous. An overworked Congressman is beyond the conception of the average man. Yet a fundamental defect in the efficiency of our representative system is clearly revealed. Congressmen and Senators keep their eyes on their constituents rather than on the legislative products which they help to grind out. John Stuart Mill realized this defect and proposed a system not greatly unlike Mr. Sullivan...
...Untermeyer, William Rose Benét, Floyd Dell and Louis Bromfield found themselves at the same table. Yet of all the unusual happenings of an unusual gathering, perhaps the most appealing to the sense of incongruity was the meeting (they did not actually meet) of H. L. Mencken and Stuart Pratt Sherman. These pen-enemies were in the same room, guests of the same host. Within the space of ten minutes I had talked with them both and was struck with the fact that Mencken the writer corresponds to Sherman the man, and vice versa. Mencken has the almost perfect...