Word: weir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death sought last week a kindly and distinguished Canadian, just turned three score and ten, vacationing at Cedarhurst, his rustic estate on Lake Memphremagog, Quebec. Robert Stanley Weir, for 16 years Recorder of Montreal (1899-1915) was mourned by Canadians last week not because of his lifetime of public service and distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost...
Arrived at London, the Prince did indeed partake of dinner?"a dinner of sorts." For some months he has been under the care of Dr. John Weir, noted Scotch homeopathist, who is said to have "mercilessly cut down his usual diet," caused him to abandon "the two extremes of dining, soup and cigars," and restricted him to "four denicotinized cigarets per day" and no wine or spirits until dinner time ?all this because Edward has allegedly found himself "growing nervous...
Close and accurate understanding between the United States and Canada and therefore between the United States and British Empire is the most important factor in the maintenance of white civiliza-H. L. WEIR...
...stolen a march on them. The dinner and the Sun's choice of players may become a football tradition, they knew, and moaned their vanished opportunity. Meanwhile Oberlander, Tully and Diehl of Dartmouth eleven; Oosterbaan and Friedman of Michigan; Sturhahn and Joss of Yale; Weir of Nebraska, McMillan of Princeton, Tryon of Colgate, Grange of Illinois, ate and drank and were entertained by the antics of those procured to amuse them-certain talented ladies from Broadway night clubs and W. H. Edwards (large Peter Pan of Princeton), who acted as toastmaster...
...autumn the Notre Dame team has traveled 7,500 miles to play seven games. Travel-weary, game-weary, it lined up against Nebraska and was beaten, partly by its own faulty passing, partly by Nebraska's alert secondary defense, and partly by the punting of the opposing Captain, Edward Weir. Score: Nebraska 17, Notre Dame...