Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mildred C. Bell gasped: 158 was her 21-year-old son Harry's number. A friend sitting beside her squawked with excitement, bringing newsmen, radio announcers and temporary fame upon the Bells and Harry's fiancee. There was another 158 in Mr. Roosevelt's audience: Herbert Jacob Ehrsam. 34, a Civil Service Commission employe. Said he: "I didn't know whether to stand up and salute, or just remain quiet." He kept quiet, and nobody knew he was there...
Last fortnight another friend, Novelist Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse, Orlando), laid out Critic Fry for all to see in a stately biography, Roger Fry (Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), as solemn as a satin-lined coffin...
Plenty of people-including Critic Adolf Hitler-would agree that punk is a mild word for Jacob Epstein's statues. But those people would have plenty of contrary-minded to deal with: not the least of them Sculptor Epstein himself. For 30 years this pudgy, bumptious, Manhattan-born sculptor has kept London's salons mouth-frothing. At the same time, a respectable squad of critics has admitted that he is one of the world's foremost portrait sculptors...
Harvard wasn't so much different a century ago in judge from the diary of Jacob Rhuff Mott of the Class of 1832, who "slept over prayers, disliked the food, and rejoiced unduly when his professors "missed" lectures...
...first hand picture of what Harvard was like a hundred years ago is contained in the dairy of Jacob Rhett Motte '32 (1832). A typical undergraduate of his generation, Motte wrote his diary during a few months in his Junior year...