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...Daniel Webster Hoan live in a cheap little frame house in Milwaukee's unfashionable 17th Ward. They have lived there for 18 years. The Hoans's living room overflows with overstuffed furniture, a radio, a phonograph, a piano. On the piano stand photographs of Mrs. Hoan, her mother, the Hoans's son Daniel Webster Jr., their daughter Agnes at 2 and at 18. A picture of the Hoans, looking stiff and uncomfortable after their wedding in 1909, hangs in the stairway hall...
Indeed Subscriber Belger does not understand the meaning of the word "wench." Webster's New International Dictionary defines "wench": "A girl or maiden; young woman; damsel. A girl of the peasant class; also a female servant." Archaic is meaning No. 4: "A lewd woman; a strumpet...
...official historian of the celebration when speaking of the anniversary always refers to it as the tur-sen-te-na-ri, with the accent on the "te," the "e" being pronounced as in "event." It's all a question of penults and ante-penults, and according to the latest Webster's the former is correct as to the accent, the latter as to the pronunciation...
...leisurely days when the U. S. Supreme Court was housed in the Capitol basement and fashionable ladies flocked to it every afternoon to listen and admire, legalites like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster got off some of their finest flights of eloquence at its bar. Nowadays, the nine hard-pressed old men who sit on the Supreme bench have no time to listen to oratory, demand facts. Last week Forney Johnston, 56. a New Deal-hating Birmingham attorney, known for his acid courtroom flings, got a lesson which was enough to send every prospective Supreme Court pleader in the land...
...Gallagher, Carrell F. Getchell, Bert Haines Howard Hart '38, Clark Hodder '25, Dr. Ralph J. Joplin, Harold Johnson '04, Victor O. Jones, Austen Lake, Henry Lamar, Arthur Lane, '27, Myles Lane, Frank O. Lunden, James F. McRac, John McDonald, Dr. Frank W. Marrin '10. Jaakko Mikkola. Fred Mirchell, Webster J. Morse, Robert R. Muir, Henry Myerson...