Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis paid $1,000 in 1897 for a spavined relic of Benjamin Franklin called The Saturday Evening Post. Last week at 5? a copy it sold more than 2,750,000, bearing the face of the patriarch on the cover and the legend, "Two Hundredth Anniversary Number." Editor George Horace Lorimer commented on the occasion to the extent of two columns in the editorial section. Said he: ". . . to assist in the evolution of a finer and loftier civilization, to express our national spirit week by week, as truly and concretely as we can-all these...
Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin-the patriarch of the House, having served 17 terms. Still an old rebel. Tall, white hair, white beard, fair-spoken-the Progressives' candidate for Speaker. He considers himself the apostle of "True Republicanism...
What disgruntled Red agitators call "the slave mentality of British workingmen" was exhibited at Swansea, Wales, last week, when the 75th ("Diamond Jubilee") British Trade Union Congress (representing all the major unions), was called to order by a onetime weaver, Ben Turner, a snowy bearded patriarch of 65, always "Ben," never "Bennie...
...this," cried Patriarch Ben, "is a waste of our manhood...
...Henry Vandyke, Wilson Democrat. Princeton patriarch. Reason: "In Defense of Religious Liberty...