Word: adolphus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francke had gotten together enough money for the present building, most of it given by Adolphus Busch, of brewery fame. The work was completed just about the time the U. S. entered the war, but anti-German feeling was so strong that the building did not open until 1921. Rumors circulated in Cambridge that the Museum was a German spy center; other reports asserted that the building's concrete foundations had been especially designed as an enemy gun emplacement...
...Died. Adolphus Busch III, 55, fourth in line of the great beer-barrel dynasty, president of Anheuser-Busch, multi-million-dollar brewers of Budweiser; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Louis...
...Anheuser-Busch brewery used a picture of Custer's last stand on their calendars. I've seen it in every saloon and pool hall in the Southwest." Benton decided to paint his own version because he was confident that Cassily Adams' bloody panorama (for which Adolphus Busch Sr. paid $30,000 in 1892) was "not much of a picture." A good many barroom judges will still prefer the original...
Divorced. By Bernarr Adolphus ("Body Beautiful") Macfadden, 77, "physcultopathic" ex-publisher of Liberty, True Story, a raft of others, hardy perennial in the Garden of Love: Mary Williamson Macfadden, fiftyish, onetime British beauty contest winner; after 18 years of "perfect union," 15 of separation, days in court without number, seven children (he accused her of "humiliating" him by losing her figure) ; in Miami...
Plainly he believed and rejoiced. The Japanese feel that the Emperor's peace making is a major revolution like that of 1869. Kagawa explained: "Japan is like Sweden, which was once a very war like nation. Gustavus Adolphus fought many battles, sometimes winning, sometimes losing, but in the end Sweden found that...