Word: peckham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Isles rotted all books and papers, practically the only other records of the white man's glory known to the vigorous civilizations of the East were a rusty iron tablet (when deciphered, it read: Keep Off the Grass) and an oblong stone (it was believed to read: Peckham 3 miles...
Supreme Court in session, prints it herewith. The drawing shows James J. Hill's lawyer, John G. Johnson (left), arguing the famed Northern Securities case before Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and the Court, January 1904. (Justices from left to right are: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Henry Billings Brown, John Marshall Harlan, Chief Justice Fuller, David Josiah Brewer, Edward Douglass White, Joseph McKenna, William Rufus Day.) Northern Securities Co. had been organized to control the securities of Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways. By a 5-to-4 decision, the holding company was found in restraint...
According to Ted Peckham, New York King of Gigolos, a Hollywood branch to provde escorts for bored spinsters and tired business girls will be opened soon. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton head the list of Social Registerites with 70 men, while Stanford and U.S.C. have only 23 between them. All men are at least five feet, ten inches tall...
...that the Advocate was founded, as George Peckham put it, "to encourage and publish the best of undergraduate writing". This has been the chief purpose through seven unchanging decades, decades in which the Advocate saw President Hill reign in 1869, basked under the liberalism of Eliot, outlived the Lowell changes, and stood ready to welcome President Conant. Mother Advocate has twice sent her sons off to war, and has herself endured the aftermath's of three. For her, life has not been easy going. It has been a difficult battle to survive the blows of depressions and censorship, predudice...
Died. Frederick George ("Peckham") Banbury, First Baron Banbury of Southam, 85, famed old parliamentary curmudgeon; at Highworth, Wiltshire, England. A Tory diehard, who boasted that his home was illuminated only by candles, he blocked admittance of peeresses to the House of Lords lest the body "lose dignity to secure efficiency...