Word: porcellian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith (founder of the Edward B. Smith & Co. investment house, which later merged with Charles D. Barney & Co. to become Smith, Barney & Co.), Geoff Smith was born in the Kitten-house Square section, went to St. Paul's School and Harvard, where he was a member of the Porcellian Club, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He became a partner in the law firm of Barnes, Dechert Price, Smith & Clark, and joined the Navy in World War II, where he rose to captain and procurement director of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. His citation...
Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts' Indian-nosed Harvardman (where he was a member of Hasty Pudding and Porcellian), took a forthright stand for Indian pudding as the nation's prize dish-"sweet . . . nourishing . . . sends you away . . . with a satisfied feeling." Breaking home-grown-dish precedent, he declared candidly that his favorite recipe was not handed down in his family for generations. Said he: "We just found it in a cookbook...
...Graven Image, a down-at-heels Har-vardman, member of the swank Porcellian Club, begs for a Washington job from the brainy Under Secretary who had been snubbed by Porcellians in college. He gets along fine, is promised the job, then spoils everything by expansively recalling college-club days. "Fellows like you," he bumbles, "you never would have made it in a thousand years." In Radio, a husband slaps his wife, tells her he has discovered her infidelities, and that he can hit her "as much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck." ("Uh-huh," she says...
Flautist's Kampf. Among many prominent Pierians was first violin Nicholas Longworth (also member of the Porcellian Club), later Speaker of the House of Representatives. At the same time (1890) Liberal Journalist Oswald Garrison Villard (also member of the Deutscher Verein) played second fiddle...
...mayor is a product of Back Bay boyhood, Boston's snooty Noble and Greenough private day school, of Harvard (where Saltonstall starred as an athlete, Putnam as a magna cum laude) and of Harvard's best social clubs (Hasty Pudding and Fly for Putnam, Hasty Pudding and Porcellian for Saltonstall). Putnam served as ensign and lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy during World War I, while fellow alumnus Saltonstall was busy as a lieutenant in the field artillery...