Word: alma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the will lasted ten years. 'Pifex, now become a sour and suspicious recluse, won. He kept his window shades down. Cats were the only guests at his table. Lawyers were his only acquaintances. In 1892 he was writing to the class secretary of his "old love for our Alma Mater." He left the bulk of his estate for the erection of those three Smith Halls, James Smith, Percy Smith and George Smith Halls, where the freshmen are gathered. New York Times...
Decided in Manhattan last week were two long-standing lawsuits concerning royalties on Victor records. One favored the U. S. Government against Soprano Alma Gluck. Two years ago she had contended that an excess profit tax of some $6,592 was unfair, sued for its return on the grounds that royalties of more than $100,000 (received in a single year) were from records made in 1917 (TIME, Jan. 16, 1928). The other favored Mrs. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, widow of the late great tenor, a brother, Giovanni Caruso, Rudolfo and Enrico Jr., natural sons, as against Gloria, 10-year...
Onetime Cinemactress Alma Rubens (Humoresque), lately released from the California State Asylum where she had been committed as a narcotic addict (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929), made a redebut at a Hollywood night club. Said she: "Toward the end it became terrible. I placed dope on a pedestal. . . . I stayed in a cell with a mad woman for more than two weeks. . . . I'm cured...
Prime mover and President of the L. W. C. is Dr. John Alfred Morehead, 62, of Manhattan, native Virginian, onetime Lutheran pastor, onetime (1908-19) President of his alma mater, Roanoke College (Va.). He studied at Leipzig and Berlin, is well-traveled. His task of unifying Lutherans, even on paper, is calculated to require five or six years. Dr. Morehead is now the first world executive of any Protestant denomination...
...resent the patronizing airs which these hybrid academics give themselves. I desire to protest against the absurd reverence which seems to be accorded to a man who has spent two or three years mooning among the dons and returns graciously to accept the offer of an instructorship at his alma mater for the purpose of impressing her loutish sons with his own esotericism and converting them from their boorishness...