Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...images, all colors, appear simultaneously, blending into one, like to sounds in accord, which makes possible in painting, as well as in music, a greater degree of harmony than in poesy. Ask a lover which is more delectable to him - a portrait of his beloved or a description." EDGAR WEBB Director of Unit Managers Training The Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York City Mr. Webb refers to the "Ear v. Eye'' letter of Publisher Hecht (TIME, April 15) and to Professor Pitkin's prediction that the "talkies" will elevate cinema because "the ear is more moral than...
...Webb figure for what doctors should get, was $8 more than the Fox figure for what U. S. doctors are now getting...
Doctors consider the $15 a day too low an income. The individual physician is entitled, wrote Dr. J. Lewis Webb of Chicago to Clinical Medicine & Surgery to at least a laborer's wage of $125 monthly ($4 daily). That makes $1,500 a year. Besides that he should receive at least 15% interest, or $6,750 yearly on the $45,000 which fairly represents the money he spent for his education and training and the time and wages he lost while learning. $1,500 in professional wages, plus $6,750 interest on educational investment, makes $8,250 yearly...
Bennett was several times assaulted, horsewhipped or beaten up by persons who did not like his treatment of news. He always wrote an account of such matters in the Herald. An example: "As I was leisurely pursuing my business, yesterday, in Wall Street . . . James Watson Webb came up to me . . . commenced fighting with a species of brutal and demoniac desperation characteristic of a fury. My damage is a scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence...
Died. J. Louis Webb, 73, Manhattan connoisseur, art collector, huntsman, fisherman, uncle of famed Poloist J. Watson Webb, son of late Editor James Watson Webb (New York Courier & Enquirer, 1827-61), grandson of Brig. Gen. Samuel Blatchley Webb, of George Washington's Army; in Manhattan...