Word: antiquarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Calvin Coolidge; to be president of the American Antiquarian Society (general historical objects...
...most expensive and intense advertising campaign ever invested in a foreign actor. In this talkie he pulls a little boy out of a French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman, but he tells the little boy he is an antiquarian. That makes the audience cry. The little boy's mother is dead?she committed suicide?so Chevalier takes him to the junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star of one of those French musical comedies where the girls roll their eyes like Irene Bordoni. Some of the songs are in English...
...South Manchester, Conn., met many another Cheney. These multitudinous Cheneys were gathered for the wedding of Frances, daughter of Frank Cheney Jr. to Roger, son of Architect Charles A. Platt. After the wedding the Cheneys drove around the town, inspecting their bailiwick. On their tour of inspection, reflective, antiquarian Cheneys may have mused on the year 1833, when the first Cheney came into contact with the first silkworm cocoon at South Manchester. Since then the town has known many Cheneys, many cocoons. Genealogically-minded Cheneys may have pondered, as they drove about, on the ramifications of relationship between the various...
...Potter has been connected with the University since his graduation in 1889. Until 1904 he was an assistant in the Library, and from 1904 to the present time he has been an assistant librarian, in charge of the Accessions Department. He is a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Colonial Society, and the editor of numerous bibliographies...
...inscription that would seem to solve the mooted point of the date of the foundation of the college was uncovered yesterday by Assistant-Professor K. B. Murdock '16. Professor Murdock an antiquarian of distinction has long been engaged in the search for absolute proof in the matter. It has long been believed that the college was founded in 1636 but there was no definite proof other than the reminiscences of some of the faculty members. The new inscription hitherto in a hidden and secluded spot bids fair to settle the matter for all time...