Word: witherspoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kiss Me, Deadly. In Boston, after she visited her husband at the Deer Island jail, embraced him affectionately, Mrs. Joan Witherspoon was arrested, charged with passing him heroin capsules...
...undersigned, request that the Summer News set aside space in its subsequent issues for publication of more poems by Endis Endum (Erskine Witherspoon Kennedy), that we may, perhaps, compare the various styles and forms that he has used at various points in his literary development...
During President John Witherspoon's administration alone (1768-1794), Princeton produced a president (Madison), a vice-president (Aaron Burr, Jr. 1772), nine cabinet officers, twenty-one U. S. Senators, 39 Representatives, three Supreme Court Justices, 12 governors, and 39 judges. The ones who didn't make the grade wound up as lawyers. This record caused Woodrow Wilson to later call the Princeton of that period "a seminary of statesmen...
...universe. The sun and moon moved in their appointed orbits; hands pointed to the proper phase of the zodiac marked on a brass ring that encircled the painted, deep-blue sky. Near the top, an inset dial indicated the day, the year and the hour. To Scottish-born John Witherspoon, Presbyterian theologian and sixth president of the college, the ornate mechanism both illustrated the majesty of the Lord's work and satisfied scientific inquiry...
From the Depths. He well remembered the day he had been asked to step up to the Met's top job. He was preparing to sing a performance of Peter Ibbetson in Detroit when the phone call came: Met Manager Herbert Witherspoon had just fallen dead in his office, and the trustees wanted Johnson to succeed him. It was a job he never regretted taking. In 15 years, Manager Johnson had withstood roars of rage from all sides; but even his bitterest critics would admit that, when the books of the Johnson era were closed this May, there would...