Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand, he never understood, why his daughters, the one so pretty the other so clever, could not be accepted by the great granddaughters of sea faring men. Then came business failure, the selling of the nearly completed house on Beacon Street, and the removal to the old farm in Vermont from whence he had sprung. Such was the rise of Silas Lapham...
...Smith-Roosevelt friction caused an unprecedented rupture in the small but doughty Democracy of New Hampshire where a primary occurs this week. To reinforce his organization in Vermont, Candidate Smith told off James A. Kennedy of Burlington to try to round up as many of that State's eight delegates as possible. Even if he does not think his chances for nomination are bright, Candidate Smith, say his friends, hopes to gc to Chicago with enough pledged support to block Governor Roosevelt and dictate the choice of party leader. ¶ Melvin Alvah Traylor, speaking before the Kentucky Legislature last...
...family soap company. He was secretary of the Colgate Board of Trustees from 1892 to 1921, has been president of the board since then. A famed banker (Jas. B. Colgate & Co.), he is also in life insurance, utilities, metals. Tall, mustachioed, looking very financial, Banker Colgate farms in Vermont, fishes in Canada. But the university claims him as its Jim. Said Colgate's Dean William Henry Crawshaw last week: "I think he must have been rocked in his cradle to the tune of 'Roll, Colgate, Roll.' Perhaps there is where the song originated...
...expected that the seating capacity of Alumnae Hall, Pembroke's large new auditorium, will be taxed to the utmost in order to accommodate the entire assemblage. Students will descend upon Providence from 25 eastern colleges: from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Brown, Dartmouth, Colby, Salem Normal, Vermont, Rhode Island State, Connecticut College for Women, Boston University, Springfield, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke, Pembroke, Wheaton, Pine Manor, Massachusetts State, Clark, and Tufts
...Mencken recently observed, the royal road to entrance in "Who's Who" is birth in Vermont. That state has presented to the nation a wholly disproportionate share of its distinguished intellects. Of course, it may only be an accident that Vermont is also the state in which simplicity of living is probably more general than any other state in the Union. It may be an accident, and again it may not. Of the five states that have contributed most to "Who's Who" three are New England states whose soils are so poor that luxuries are little known. If plain...