Word: alma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before going to Swarthmore, Raymond Walters had been registrar and English instructor at Lehigh University, his Alma Mater (1907). An American Legionary, onetime associate editor of School and Society, he is a member of the board of managers of the famed Bethlehem (Pa.) Bach Choir, about which he wrote a book...
...academic painters and museum directors has long been his special target. In 1928 he published his best known book Ananias, or the False Artist, in which he performed the not too difficult feat of denting the reputations of such painters as Edwin Howland Blashfield, Ignacio Zuloaga, Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema. Emanuel Leutze, the creator of Waslington Crossing the Delaware, and the society portraits of John Singer Sargent (like most critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, that bought them...
...when he sees his college taking in all this easy money he sees no reason why he should not receive something for the hard work which brings so much money into the college till. At this point comes the bootlegging alumnus, filled with ardor for the success of Alma Mater, ready to subsidize the young athlete by dark and devious methods...
...Holy Joe" McKee, grave, handsome, scholarly, was born & bred in the sprawling Bronx north of the Harlem River. As a boy he sold newspapers. At Fordham University he was an honor graduate. Before studying law he taught Latin and Greek at his Alma Mater, English in one of the city's high schools. He still writes magazine articles under the name of James W. Dawson. A good Democrat, he is not a Tammany man. His political mentor is New York's Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn, Bronx boss and Roosevelt supporter. In 1925 he was first elected...
...gasoline trucks and busses for heavy rolling stock. Some trains are made up of an automobile fitted with flanged wheels, carrying ten passengers, and a diminutive freight car. If the I. C. C. lets him accept the gift, Lawyer Miller will run his little road as the Denver, Leadville & Alma, send his little trains chugging through the mountains...