Word: jeremiahs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from these qualifications for the post, Seymour practically inherited the presidency. An ancestor, Joseph Colt, received an honorary degree at the first Yale commencement in 1702. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Clap, was president of Yale College from 1740 to 1766. His great-uncle, Jeremiah Day, filled the same office between 1817 and 1846. His grandfather, Nathan P. Seymour, was a graduate of the college, and his father, Thomas Day Seymour, was Hillhouse Professor of Greek Language and Literature...
...Artist Rowe's Isaiah, Jeremiah, Elisha, etc. appear as sickly souls ... All the marks of the machine age are upon them...
Bonnie Prince. It was twelve years since Charley Seymour, in sonorous Latin, had accepted the keys, records, charter and great seal of the university, in the climax of a long Eli career. His great-great-grandfather Thomas Clap (from 1740 to 1766) and his great-uncle Jeremiah Day (from 1817 to 1846) were Yale presidents before him, and his father had taught the classics there. Seymour himself (Yale '08) joined the faculty in 1911 as an instructor in history...
...Dear to My Heart (Walt Disney; RKO Radio), a sugary version of Sterling North's novel about an Indiana backwoods boyhood, is short on realism but long on entertainment. Jeremiah (Bobby Driscoll) and his little black lamb are good for a few laughs and tears, but the story is mainly useful as an excuse for Burl Ives's ballads and Walt Disney's cartoons...
...Roosevelt's plaque shares the wall by the west door with a statue of Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, 1666-1732; a statue to William Pitt the Younger; a memorial to Jeremiah Horrocks, d. 1641 (who "detected the long inequality in the mean motion of Jupiter and Saturn"), and one to the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury...