Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert Einstein, Dr. George Richards Minot (who later received a Nobel Prize), the late great Dr. William Henry Welch (1849-1934). The salutes to Dr. Libman filled three Libman Anniversary Volumes. Dr. Welch, who wrote the introduction, needed ten epithets for his hero: "Teacher, investigator, writer, skilled physician, exemplar and promoter of scientific research, generous helper of fellow-workers and pupils, guide, leader and friend of a devoted band of disciples...
...might be, said Professor Gordon, "they were so expressive, so impudently near the truth, that it was hard to resist them a place in any honest lexicon." U. S. eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person...
Chicago, prime exemplar of rotten city finance, sent no important municipal official to attend. The polite guests did not refer to their host city's negligence. They called her not by name, but more than one of them took digs at the type of municipal financing Chicago has done, particularly ''borrowing" from schoolteachers and firemen by foisting on them payless pay days. Chief causes of city financial trouble as diagnosed by the conference...
...Henry Ford and Owen D. Young as businessmen; to the Crusaders as Liberals on Prohibition; to The Nation, New Republic, St. Louis Post Dispatch and Scripps-Howard chainpapers, and to Will Rogers?all of them exponents of one or another kind of U. S. Liberalism. But for an exemplar and spokesman whose Liberalism would be little disputed and least necessary to define, Walter Lippmann of the late World would serve the inquisitive foreigner best...
Three Cornell men, Carl Weagant, Dudley X Schoales, Joseph Rummler, last summer after being graduated, sailed across the Atlantic in the 40-ft. ketch Carlsark. Last week they returned to Ithaca, N. Y., presented a slab of rock from Ithaca, Greece, hometown of their avowed exemplar, Homeric Odysseus, to Cornell's archeological museum, declared proudly that in exchange for the slab they had set up on the heights above Greek Ithaca a rock carried from Cornell's campus inscribed "CORNELL FOREVER...