Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the respectable wholesale drug house of John Wyeth & Bro., Inc. stumbled Fred Barrick last month. Waving an official Government order blank signed by Dr. Anders, he demanded 500 half-grain tablets of morphine sulphate, enough to choke a team of horses. Since Government order blanks are for the personal use of physicians who purchase narcotics wholesale for office use, the druggists promptly called the narcotic squad...
Broadcloth Boys. Immediate granddaddies of one contemporary school were the American pre-Raphaelite Edwin Austin Abbey and the Romanticist Howard Pyle, both august figures around Manhattan's mellow Century Club in the 1890s. Pyle, later joined by his star pupil, N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth, founded an informal art school at Wilmington, Del., where young Pyles and young Wyeths still make most of the art news (TIME, Nov. 15; 1937). Abbey's Tennysonian women and Pyle's nut-brown heroes haunted subsequent illustrators in oil. So did their love of historical romance. One of their stylistic descendants...
...omnibus volume, illustrated with 14 romantic paintings by N. C. Wyeth, part real-estate ad, part history, part guide book, all of it unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...
Dave Hurt, John Palfrey, Jack Stewart, Walter Muther, and Stuart Wyeth won their singles matches for the CRIMSON, while Ollie Bolton and Don Gordon, and Muther and George Goodwin chalked up the Cowles' doubles victories...
Upon their arrival, Wyeth and Everts were happy to see that a court was just being vacated. Their pleasure was short-lived, however, since the occupants proceeded to take away the net. The Harvardians protested, but the occupants announced that it was their own net and refused even to consider a 25 cent rental. After a short argumentative game without any net, Wyeth and Everts withdrew...