Word: historians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Austin Beard is a tall, lean, deaf, white-haired, Indiana-born Yankee with a piercing eye, a commanding presence and a gruff voice. For 25 of his 63 years he has been a powerful influence among U. S. historians by virtue of works like Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. His wife Mary, who collaborated with him on The Rise of American Civilization, is a historian in her own right (A Short History of the American Labor Movement), a lecturer, a champion of women's rights. His son William published his first book, Create the Wealth, in 1936. Last...
American English's editors have done considerable research into the etymology and practice of bundling (partly undressed, unmarried couples occupying the same bed for warmth). Said an early Connecticut historian (1781): "Notwithstanding the great modesty of the females ... it is thought but a piece of civility to ask her to bundle: a custom as old as the first settlement in 1634." Another writer reported: "When a girl, that was old enough to be married, had a suitor who had been a few times to see her, the parents, if they approved of the connection, would-what they called-bundle...
...Disney, the Artist, is nothing like as widely known as Mickey, the Mouse-or any of Mickey's score of charming fellow players in the Disney zoological stock company. In fact, when some art historian of the future sets out to chronicle the rise of the animated cartoon, the quest for original drawings by the man most responsible for it will be about as difficult as it is now to locate additional authentic Rembrandts. Walt Disney has not drawn his own pictures for nine years. To turn out the mass production issued nowadays under his name, he would have...
High Tide N. A. M. is not unused to unsettled times. Its official history begins with an account of how the organization was conceived to meet the "crisis" brought on by another Democratic Administration (Grover Cleveland's). "Great crises," observes N. A. M.'s historian, "are always the fathers of the men and the measures that bring about their alleviation or cure." The history continues darkly...
...Tercentenary Celebration Dr. Rostovtzeff received an honorary Litt. D. with the citation: "The social and economic historian of the Roman empire, whose fruitful study of aniquity accumulates for all who read centuries of rich experience...