Word: tweed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leonard Opdycke '17, Department Chairman, and John P. Coolidge '35, Director of the Fogg Museum, will represent the Fine Arts faculty before the Committee, headed by Harrison Tweed '07. Plans for the meeting call for discussion of possible modifications in the recommendations of the recent Visual Arts Report...
Swindled freshmen said the pair were very smooth speakers, and seemed "typical seniors." One was dressed in Ivy League clothing, a tweed jacket with gray flannel pants, while the other wore a gaberdine suit. They both had slight Boston accents...
...technical treatment of organic evolution. Beginning with a history of evolutionary thought, Professor Romer proceeds to the genetic background of the subject, the work of Darwin, and finally a detailed explanation of how a fish got to be an ape, and how an ape got to wear tweed jackets and flannel pants...
After eight years in power, Tweed finally fell-and fell hard. His reign was exposed, and he was eventually sentenced to a year in jail for forgery, grand larceny and conspiracy. Later, a $6,000,000 civil judgment was returned against him. When asked his occupation for the jail records, Tweed replied: "Statesman." With official connivance, Tweed escaped from the Ludlow Street Jail and fled to Spain, where authorities recognized him from a Thomas Nast cartoon and arrested him as the kidnaper of two American children. Reason: the cartoon had shown Tweed clutching two symbolic ragamuffins. Tweed was returned...
JOHN ("HONEST JOHN") KELLY. While the Tweed Ring was crumbling, John Kelly, onetime soapstone cutter grown to influence in Tammany, wisely absented himself from the scene; he went off to inspect the Holy Land. Upon the Ring's breakup, Kelly hastened back to the U.S. with four oil paintings, including The Return of the Prodigal Son, which he presented to St. Patrick's Cathedral. He took over as Boss of Tammany, ruled for 14 years with relative rectitude, and died of a broken heart after his political enemy, Grover Cleveland, became President...