Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Joshua Butler Wright, 62, U. S. Ambassador to Cuba since 1937, onetime Minister to Hungary, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia; after an operation; in Havana...
...Ibis following Henry Hayes '40 will be Walter Russell Bowie, Jr., who lives in Winthrop House and New York City. Other executive members of the Literary Board to-be are Edward Phelps Joshua Zimmerman '41 of Lowell House and Washington, D. C. as Narthex and Bancroft Gherardi Davis '41 of Leverett House and Boston as Secretary...
...Israel Joshua Singer's big book, published two years ago, was The Brothers Ashkenazi, a chronicle of Polish Jewry told against a background of the textile industry of Lodz. Critics praised the vigor of its narrative, verisimilitude of its atmosphere, especially its detachment. Some critics called it a Polish Forsyte Saga; a few went so far as to call Author Singer the Polish Tolstoy...
...restorations were James Henry Breasted's epochal History of Egypt (1905), Sir Arthur Evans' report on Pre-Hellenic Crete (1921-35). One result is that any good advertising artist now knows more about the very fine arts of the Nile valley and the Aegean islands than Sir Joshua Reynolds, for example, ever guessed...
Last evening the Playwrights' Company presented a new musical comedy entitled "Knickerbocker Holiday" with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, music by Kurt Weill, and the production by Joshua Logan; viewed in toto, the show will not be one of great appeal to collegiate theatregoers...