Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this sweeping cynicism, and not as some might think, because the sun is climbing northward with a persistency remarkable for one so old. So the thinking being when he climbs into bed to race the blissful nirvana of eclipsed regrets occasionally wastes a few minutes and an aspirin tablet in tracing this phenomenon to its source...
...Gramercy Park, Manhattan, an old house was torn down a few months ago and builders began to put up an apartment. Last week a company of notable people in high hats and frock coats gathered to unveil a tablet in memory of the man who used to live in the vanished brownstone edifice - Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, "the famous infidel." Onetime Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, Actress Julia Marlowe, Poet Edgar Lee Masters, made speeches, and those who read the proud colophon upon the tablet and listened to the eloquence of Col. Ingersoll's admirers, reflected how, 40 years...
...Independence, Mme. Marie Harel of Camembert, France, discovered the secret of preparing a certain gastronomic delicacy which her local patriotism impelled her to name "fromage Camembert" rather than "fromage à la Marie Harel." Now her self-effacement is to be rewarded by the erection of a suitable memorial tablet at the expense of the village fathers of Camembert. Gourmets heard of this fitting tribute to an obscure genius with approval, recalled that it was only a couple of years ago that a monument was erected in Strasbourg by public subscription to M. Close, inventor of the technique by which...
...undergraduate committee of the Phillips Brooks House has announced the unveiling of a tablet to Arthur Beane '11 who died last March. Mr. Beane was connected for many years with the Phillips Brooks House as graduate secretary and subsequently a member of the corporations committee. He was also involved in University athletics. At one time he was Freshman crew coach. He also acted as assistant coach of the University crew...
...royalist demonstration at Potsdam this week, Germany has given western Europe another scare and revived the rumors of a Hohenzohern estoration current at the time of von Hindenburg's election. It seems that during the unveiling of a tablet to the war dead of the Kaiserin Augusta Guard, General Sixt von Armin made a sensational address in which he committed himself and his audience--including the Republican troops--to unbroken fidelity to the Kaiser...