Word: thurstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Magician Howard Thurston, 67; in Miami Beach, Fla. His most adroit tricks often embarrassed people of : In Washington he once removed a genuine bottle of whiskey from Andrew J. Volstead's pocket. At the White House, he smashed President Coolidge's watch with a hammer, produced a loaf of bread, cut it apart, pulled out the watch, ticking and whole...
That scholar was Harry Thurston Peck, famed as a classicist, as an editor (The Bookman, The International Encyclopedia), as a fractiously brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship...
Absent from his dinner last week was Harry Thurston Peck, who had retreated in disgrace to Stamford, Conn., where he unsuccessfully tried to make a living as a free lance, lost his mind, shot himself...
Historian. As a young man Mark Sullivan was vastly impressed by the late Harry Thurston Peck's brilliant history of the contemporary U. S., Twenty Years of the Republic (1885-1905). Years later after seeing many a U. S. political event from the inside, Journalist Sullivan began to read accounts of some of them and say to himself, "That was not the way it happened." History, he concluded, can never be rightly written from documents alone. Too much happens behind the scenes, too much is decided by a passing word or nod of the head, too many varying accounts...
...begged, "to assist Missourians in paying the 1% sales tax imposed by their Legislature?" Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. assented. Franklin Roosevelt drew a picture of the coins as he would like them (TIME, Aug. 5). A bill went to the House Committee on Coinage, Weights & Measures, where Representative Lloyd Thurston of Osceola, Iowa made this proposal...