Word: willards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey at bay between Jesse James and Brigham Young. Among the seven names represented between the strenuous cloth covers are one woman (Frances E. Willard); one capitalist (J. J. Hill); one sailor (Dewey); one politician (Mark Hanna); one showman (Barnum); one Latter-day Saint (Young); one bandit (James...
Frances E. Willard. Here is a woman who has been regarded as the embodiment of the aggressively virtuous. Her very humanity has been squeezed from her by her admirers. Mr. Dibble means to change all that. He tries to show the irrepressible naughtiness underlying the intolerable perfection. She is interesting for two reasons: her career marks "the definite entrance of woman into the field of political and moral reform"; and "she was a woman who led an unusually rich and varied existence...
...Lament was understood to have spent much money on The Post, and it was common talk that he "dropped a million or two" in it. Early in 1922 he sold the paper to a syndicate of 34 men headed by Edwin T. Gay and including Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. Willard Straight, Clarence M. Woolley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marshall Field, Charles C. Burlingham, Cleveland H. Dodge, August Heckscher, Finley J. Shepard, George W. Wichersham, Paul M. Warburg, Harold Phelps Stokes. These men in turn have now sold the paper to Mr. Curtis...
...Dinner will be held in May. The Committee in charge of the Dinner in addition to R. G. Allen, Chairman, and C. McG. Wells and J. J. Maher, Vice-Chairmen, is as folows: John Wright Adie of Chestnut Hill; Henry Goddard Bradlee of Brookline; Samuel Willard Bridges Jr. of Newton; Thayer Cumings of Bedford Hills, New York; George Wallace Foster of West Roxbury; Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham; Columbus O'Donnell Iselin of New York City; George Beere Moynahan of Mattapan; Perry Rogers Pease of Hempstead, Long Island, New York; Harold Irving Pratt of New York City; Kenneth Morse...
...Wells and J. J. Maher, Vice-Chairmen, is as folows: John Wright Adie of Chestnut Hill; Henry Goddard Bradlee of Brookline; Samuel Willard Bridges Jr. of Newton; Thayer Cumings of Bedford Hills, New York; George Wallace Foster of West Roxbury; Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham; Columbus O'Donnell Iselin of New York City; George Beere Moynahan of Mattapan; Perry Rogers Pease of Hempstead, Long Island, New York; Harold Irving Pratt of New York City; Kenneth Morse Rogers of Dorchester; Hovey Edward Slayton of Manchester, New Hampshire; Donald Spencer of Cambridge; Donald LeBosquet Sweeney of Newton Highlands; Albert Tilt...