Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freeman W. Adams 3G was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship in classical studies for the year 1949-50, the American Academy in Rome announced last night. The $1000 stipend will include a travel allowance and residence at the academy...
...FREEMAN W. ADAMS Cambridge, Mass...
President Conant became an honorary Freeman of the Metropolitan (London) Borough of Southwark during his visit to England...
Albert Jay Nock was a mysterious man. Not that he ever seemed to be one-the literary public knew him as an editor (the highbrowed, low circulation Freeman, 1921-24), an essayist of distinction, an authority on Rabelais, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Henry George. He wrote in an urbane, aloof style with an odd characteristic. At unpredictable points, caustic opinions on politics abruptly intruded, as if someone occasionally interrupted an hour of chamber music by reading well-written editorials from the Boston Evening Transcript. Editor Nock considered himself a radical...
Critical Comparisons. None of the eminent writers on the staff of the Freeman (e.g., Van Wyck Brooks and Suzanne La Follette) knew where he lived. It was an office joke that the only way to communicate with him was by leaving a letter under a certain stone in Central Park. He was an expert billiard player, a master of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and a seasoned music critic. He was in the U.S. foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with...