Word: booth
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...America (TIME. Dec. 8). Flaying the 50 academicians as a group, Mr. Lewis nevertheless made ten exceptions, evinced a weakness for: Nicholas Murray Butler (president of the Academy), Wilbur Lucius Cross, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, James Trus-low Adams, Hamlin Garland, Owen Wister, Brand Whitlock, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington. But the Academy, he declared, "does not represent literary America today, it represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...group of friends gave Commander Evangeline Booth $5,000 to bid up and buy in the ball that was used for the kickoff, inscribed by President Hoover. At a convivial party on the St. Regis roof that night, to which Producers Florenz Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll sent beauteous shows girls for each & every player on the two teams, the ball was presented to Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who had followed up Sport Editor Paul Gallico's lead in arranging the game...
...Booth '33 of Boston was appointed assistant manager of the team, it was announced at the same time...
...Abramovitz '32, Brooklyn, N. Y.; G. H. Acheson '33, Pittsburgh, Pa.; J. B. Ames '32, Wayland, Mass.; M. L. Anshen '33, Boston; C. M. Arensberg '31, Pittsburgh, Pa.; W. O. Aydelotte '31, Swarthmore, Pa.; M. S. Beeler '31, Seattle, Wash.; F. E. Bissell, Jr. '31. Dubuque, Iowa; J. A. Booth '33, E. Boston J. L. Brock '32, Buffalo. N. Y.; F. O. Canfield '32, New York City; B. G. Carleton '31, New York City; Henry Chalfant, Jr. '31, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Leslie Cheek, Jr. '31, Nashville Tenn.; J. A. Cooper '33, Birmingham, Ala.; D. C. Dennett, Jr. '31, Winchester...
...Author. Russel Grouse, colyumist of Manhattan's Evening Post ("Left at the Post"), also writes for the New Yorker, once acted in a play (Gentlemen of the Press) by munching a ham sandwich, darting into a telephone booth. Caustic playgoers called the sandwich appropriate...