Word: prot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thorny explanation of U. S. history which, expounded in his best book, The Promise of American Life, in 1909, has defied simplification ever since. A conscientious but seldom an inspired writer, he painfully ground out his long, unpopular, difficult editorials as a necessary but dreadful duty. But Herbert Croly protégés, from popularizing Liberal Walter Lippmann to scholarly Critic Edmund Wilson, spread Croly's ideas far beyond his reputation...
Emerson was proud of his prickly protégé Thoreau, called him "As free and erect a mind as any I have ever met.' Just the same, two years of Thoreau as handyman around the place was more than enough for Emerson. Said witty Elizabeth Hoar: "I love Henry but do not like him," and Emerson, who knew how she felt, often quoted her wisecrack. Even closer to Henry was his crony, Poet Ellery Channing, who wrote the first Thoreau biography. Channing once confessed: "I have never been able to understand what he meant by his life...
...Goldwyn, he turned it over to Scenarists Irmgard von Cube and John Howard Lawson. For another $30,000 Heifetz consented to return to Hollywood for a few necessary scenes. Goldwyn feared more trouble getting Virtuoso Heifetz to play to the accompaniment of his juvenile orchestra, 45 gifted Los Angeles protégés of philanthropic University of Southern California Professor Peter Meremblum. But when Heifetz heard the kids on the set valiantly attacking the Barber of Seville overture, he acted just as Producer Goldwyn hoped he would, grabbed his fiddle and walked...
Married. Tyrone Power Jr., 24, sleek cinemacting scion of an Anglo-Irish stage family; and Annabella, 26-year-old French cinemactress (real name: Suzanne Georgette Charpentier) ; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Paris publisher, blonde, pert Annabella got her cinema name and fame as a protégéé of French Director René Clair. Once-widowed, once-divorced Annabella and Bachelor Power became friends last year during the filming of Suez...
...Among Dr. Cushing's well-known students and protègés: Dr. Walter Edward Dandy of Johns Hopkins; Dr. Gilbert Horrax of Boston; Dr. Leo Max Davidoff of Brooklyn; Dr. Eliott Carr Cutler, of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; Dr. William John German of New Haven; Dr. Howard Christian Naffziger of the University of California...