Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Artist Twok does not use the primitive picture writing of his people. His drawing is western, modeled painstakingly after the art in U. S. magazines lent him by white settlers. Artist Kent is far from being Twok's first patron. Credit chiefly belongs to a Mrs. Oliver Weaver, wife of a public utilities executive in Nome, who has been circulating and selling original Twoks for several years...
Artist Thomas Moran. was born in Lancashire, England exactly 100 years ago this week. The son of a handloom weaver, he was brought to the U. S. at the age of seven. In Philadelphia, where his elder brother Edward, later famed as a marine painter, was already studying drawing, Thomas Moran was apprenticed to a wood engraver, very soon won a modest reputation for himself as a painter of mildly romantic landscapes. He studied in Europe, became heavily influenced by Turner's explosive sunsets, but Moran did not become a national figure until 1871, when the U. S. Geological...
Motorman Chrysler was not the only distinguished defendant arraigned before Judge Chesnut last week. Among others, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the U. S. Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, was fined $5 for unplugged gun, $1 for unpasted stamp. Enroute from Texas, Albanus Phillips, big, bluff Cambridge Md. soupmaker whose 6,700-acre estate adjoins his good friend Mr. Chrysler's, was expected in court this week to answer a charge of baited shooting...
...boys are getting smarter each year."-Osteopath Harrison ("Buck'') Weaver, trainer of the St. Louis Cardinals...
...Harriet" as an anatomical model was unique (see cut). Foreign savants stopped in Philadelphia to admire her. Generations of medical students learned neurology by tracing her ramifications. She made a special trip to Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Hahnemann Medical College made Dr. Weaver a professor, gave him a Rufus B. Weaver Anatomical Museum, gave "Harriet" an honored vault. In 1925 he retired from teaching. Last week when arteriosclerosis and his 95 years made him unable to resist longer, Death took Dr. Weaver...