Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Whitney Gilkey: Professor of Preaching at the University of Chicago: an exemplar of his own teaching...
...gentleman largely responsible for Virginia's new roads is another exemplar of the way politics can keep its breeding, and again Lady Astor's remark was a neat compliment. The road-builder was her host and distant relative, Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia...
Contractor William F. Kenny, owner of the "Santa Claus," burly, bluff, unpolitical, is the prime exemplar of what is meant by friendship with the Smith circle. He would give "his shirt" (estimated to be worth 40 millions) but no advice to the man whom he has known since they played together in the late Kenny Sr.'s firehouse...
South Carolina's senior Senator, Coleman L. Blease, scouted the notion that his State, outstanding exemplar of secession, would bolt the Democratic ticket if Smith were nominated. This and other statements quieted the talk of Smith's "splitting" the South...
MISS HOUGH in "Not for Publication" presents a story of everyday life in an average town situated, presumably, on the Case. Pomanset is its name, Boston its exemplar of good taste, and it boasts of two daily papers, the Banner and the News. One could not reasonably expect extraordinary developments from such a situation. Miss Hough has not attempted the ridiculous...