Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Narrow Comp so far are P. B. Beal, O. H. Emmons, R. M. Farlow, B. L. Fairbanks, E. H. Pringle, A. G. Webster, and H. A. White, Broad Compromise Race has atracted the following: G. A. Emerson, Jr., S. B. Flint, W. J. Keville, J. A. McAllen, J. P. Riesman, P. D. Rowan, and C. P. Ware...
Died. Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, Viscount Burnham, 70, retired owner-publisher of the London Daily Telegraph, last individual proprietor of a London daily; of heart disease; in London. He served on the Simon Commission in India, stoutly opposed Indian autonomy. He presided over the International Labor Conference (Geneva, 1921, 1922, 1926); was chairman of the committee which rebuilt the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. His newspaper, handed down through three generations from his grandfather Joseph Moses Levy, carried more U. S. news, unbiased and friendly, than any other British sheet...
...Klux Klan. The Harding inauguration. Oil derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred...
...upon the death of Dr. Charles Henry Forbes, who had functioned during Dr. Stearns's absence. Bald, smooth-faced "Jack" Fuess (pronounced "Feece") has long edited the alumni bulletin and is secretary of the alumni fund. His fame reaches far beyond Andover as a scholarly biographer of Daniel Webster, Carl Schurz, Rufus Choate, Caleb Gushing. He is now working on a biography of Calvin Coolidge, though not an official one-Mrs. Coolidge has not given Dr. Fuess her late husband's papers. Mrs. Fuess changed his name to '"Jack" years ago because she could not bear "Claude...
...Comp. Literature 42b Sever 11 Economics 6b Sever 6 Education B Emerson D Engin. Sciences 7c Pierce 302 English 33 Fogg Large Rm. English 76 Fogg Large Rm. Fine Arts 15f Fogg Large Rm. French 6 Professor Morize, Sec. 1 Sever 36 Dr. Francon, Sec. 2 Sever 35 Dr. Webster, Sec. 3 Sever 24 Mr. Penny, Sec. 4 Sever 29 Mr. Lincoln, Sec. 5 Sever 31 Greek 2 Sever 30 History 15 Mallinckrodt MB23 History 17 Sever 17 History of Science 1 Sever 5 Japanese 1 Widener C Mathematics A VI Professor Walsh, Sec. 1 Harvard 2 Mr. Steen...