Word: webster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With all due regard to editors & their right to interpret Webster in various ways; I cannot see how anyone-if they read Scarlet Sister Mary-could by any chance call Scarlet Sister Mary a prostitute...
...Webster gives the following definition of a gentleman "Law, A respectable man who engages in no occupation or profession regularly for gain." British Gentlemen, like British Peers, are listed annually in Burke's Landed Gentry...
...lives during the winter on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; during the summer at Locust Valley, L. I. He is a tall, spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...
When the present Stone & Webster retire...
...Stone is 62, Mr. Webster 61), there will be a junior Stone and a junior Webster to take their places. For among the directors of the new corporation will be Whitney Stone (Harvard, 1930) and Edwin Sibley Webster Jr. (Harvard, 1923) who is also a Stone & Webster Vice President under the new incorporation...