Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...seems that hard work does not always go unrewarded, for after years of valiant effort, David W. Bailey, the University's energetic publications agent, and Harvard's staunchest alphabet supporter, has at last realized his cherished ambition, and has alphabetized the catalogue...
Over 2060 faculty members are listed in the new catalogue, Mr. Bailey stated. The original issue, 121 years ago, covered 29 instructors, one business officer, and the president...
Following the precedent of "Brother Rat" authors Monks and Finklehoffe have located the story in a college and have filled it with glamor-boys and pretty co-eds. This time it is dear old Bailey U. that takes the alma mater honors and the life is quite a revelation. Armed with forged Groton diplomas and a beer-hall background, Maxie and stooge Sid Silvers crash Bailey to run an underground bookie racket and take the students for an expensive ride on the ponies. From there on it is a mad chase from physiology classroom to basketball floor to the girl...
...course, he knew Louisiana-born George Washington Cable, who was slowly decomposing in New England. William Dean Howells, who was smugly doing the same in New York. He knew also Thomas Bailey Aldrich, who "had very nearly as extensive an appreciation of himself and his gifts as had the late Edmund Clarence Stedman, who believed that the sun merely rose to admire his poetry and was so reluctant to set at the end of the day . . . that it lingered and lingered and . . . was never able to keep correct time during his stay in the earth." But the mind craves...
...George Washington's first administration was drawing to a close. Late in that year a 26-year-old Massachusetts bookseller & stationer named Robert Bailey Thomas brought out the first edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac. It was an immediate success. It is a success today-the oldest almanac...