Word: progenitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Penmen. Great progenitor of the pen-and-ink school was the virtuoso, Charles Dana Gibson, whose crisp and incredibly thoroughbred characters lived so vividly in the old Life that in 1920 Gibson was able to buy the magazine for $1,000,000. President of the Society of Illustrators from 1904-05 and from 1909-20, Gibson was honored at last week's exhibition by a retrospective room full of Gibson Girls. Now 71 and long retired, high-collared, big-chinned "Dana" Gibson paints all day in a 59th Street studio but not a soul is permitted...
Cinema tributes to historical celebrities are often ungratefully received. Last November, descendants of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had 17 children, growled because Suez failed to show that their progenitor had married. Last week, after a Hollywood preview of Jesse James, Miss Jo Frances James, not a bank robber but a Los Angeles bank executive, said: "About the only connection it had with fact was that there was once a man named James and he did ride a horse...
...presence of such a thing as Spinachanthropus in the dim, dusty corridors of the past may necessitate entire revision of present theories concerning the descent of man from Northarctic, the naked polar bear. Instead of Northarctic, the root of all evilution may very likely be one of the progenitors of Spinachanthropus. This progenitor has not been discovered yet, but the very presence of Spinachanthropus itself indicates that he must have had a father, which in turn must have had a father and so on. Spinachseed is confident that he will not have to look too far back for this ancestral...
...possibility, nay the probability, of such a progenitor has thrown the entire staff of the Geology department into utter confusion. The retreat, headed by Professor Dither, has not yet begun, but the imminent final in Geology 1 this morning promises to be the scene of a scientific polemic comparable to the Scopes trial. If Professor Dither is able to stall off the reporters, the examination will be given as if no such event as Spinachseed's discovery had transpired. The professor states that his strategy will be to pretend he has never heard of Spinachseed. He has been quoted...
Although soccer, more formally known as Association Football, is the progenitor of U. S. football, as a national sport it is more like U. S. baseball. In addition to the millions of English boys and men who play the game for fun, there are several thousand paid players who make up the 500 major and minor-league professional teams. Comparable to baseball's two major leagues are the four divisions (22 teams each) of England's Football League. Like baseball's pennant winners are the top-ranking teams of each division. Faintly comparable to the World Series...