Word: williams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph William Chamberlain, of Hyde Park...
...William McKee Dunn, of Detroit, Michigan...
...William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics, tonight announced the appointment of Charles J. Whiteside of Syracuse, N. Y. to the varsity rowing coaching staff at Harvard. Whiteside is the former Freshman rowing coach of Syracuse University...
TWELVE AGAINST THE GODS-William Bolitho-Simon & Schuster ($4). "In reality, the whole history of human progress from the flint-jabber to standing room in the subway . . . is the result of two forms of effort, the guard and the search, made by the Home-stayer on the one hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon...
With such abstruse connections, William Bolitho ties his subjects to an arbitrary definition of "adventurer" and a theatrical title. Thus also, with a stretched premise, he gives himself an excuse for an eccentric examination of their behavior, scandals, intentions, tragedies...