Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patronesses will be: Adams Mrs. J. P. Baxter 3rd, Mrs. N. B. Gardiner, Mrs. R. S. Hillyer, Mrs. R. B. Perry, Mrs. A. M. Schlesinger, Mrs. O. H. Taylor, Mrs. C. K. Webster; Leverett: Mrs. K. B. Murdock, Mrs. D. H. McLaughlin, Mrs. Harold Murdock, Mrs. H. A. Yoemans, Mrs. P. G. E. Miller, Mrs. B. F. Wright, and Mrs. S. E. Morison...
...Hoccleve and Lydgate," Professor K. G. T. Webster, Sever...
...concern felt over the ability of the company to pay when due. The sale of many Insull properties has been widely rumored. The most acceptable story was that United Gas Improvement Co. would acquire the New England companies; Public Service Corp. of New Jersey, those adjacent to it; Stone & Webster, the southern system. The Illinois-Indiana companies would be retained by the Insull group. Both U. G. I. and Public Service of N. J. are considered to be Morgan companies. Last week Samuel Insull snapped: "There is absolutely no truth in the report...
...clearest recollections which most people carry from History 1 is of the indefinable air of contemper-anconsness which Professor Webster gave to the whole period from the Congress of Vienna to the World War. Part of the effect came from the impassive manner in which he pronounced critical judgement on long dead statesmen with all the genial dogmatism of an old friend; part from the illuminating anecdotes which punctuate his lectures...
...Gower", Professor K. G. T. Webster, Sever...