Word: waldo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the time of year when the platitudinous challenges to youth ring out throughout the land. Platitudinous because they must be. When faced with addressing a multitude of unfamiliar faces what can the commencement speaker say--unless he's a Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Farmer Ralph Waldo Moore pondered these words for the best part of two years, as he mended his fences, planted and reaped his crops. Then one day he walked into the Waldron State Bank and handed over to Cashier Virgil Roberts a check for $580. "This is for the church, Virgil," he said. "I want to start tithing...
Unburied Treasures. Along with his interviews, Nevins has also collected more than 25,000 documents-letters to & from Presidents, diaries, private records of events of every sort. He has also obtained some older treasures. Dr. Haven Emerson was able to produce 30 letters from Ancestor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Chemist William Jay Schieffelin reached into a closet and pulled out the seven letters that John Jay wrote to Major General Philip Schuyler after the fall of Fort Ticonderoga...
...Award dinner in Manhattan, for books which the U.S. publishing trade voted the most distinguished U.S. fiction, non-fiction and poetry of 1949: Novelist Nelson Algren, 40, of Chicago, for The Man with the Golden Arm; Biographer Dr. Ralph L Rusk, 61, of Manhattan, for The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Dr. William Carlos Williams, 66, pediatrician-poet of Rutherford, N.J., for two books of verse, Paterson, Book III and Selected Poems...
...Malden, Mass., Waldo F. Davis left a half-completed income tax form on the dining-room table, stepped into the bathroom, and with a razor fatally slashed his wrist...