Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Father, an illustration by Jean Chariot for Paul Claudel's book on Mexico. By a characteristically Bostonian accident, this print was entitled in the exhibition Motherly Care...
...Civil War made Paul Smith's remote lodge famous when many a gilded young New Yorker and Bostonian hid out there to avoid conscription. Paul was an expert and talkative guide and his wife cooked such bounteous dinners of venison, flapjacks and trout that the lodge grew into an immense rambling structure with 216 rooms. It had such guests as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Mark Twain, Grover Cleveland, Edward H. Harriman. When Paul Smith, an alert, erect oldster of 87 with snowy hair, a Vandyke beard and broad-brimmed hat, died in 1912 he left his three sons the largest...
...that time its occupant has been Bostonian Sanford Bates. Calvin Coolidge gave him the job of running Massachusetts' prisons nearly 18 years ago. So great grew his fame as a penologist that Herbert Hoover brought him to Washington, Governor Franklin Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia tried in vain to lure him into the services of the State and City of New York. Having kicked politics out of the antiquated prison system and built 16 model Federal prisons, last week Penologist Bates resigned, turned over his job to his Assistant James V. Bennett, to try his hand at crime prevention...
Bobby Walthour Sr., Songwriter Harry Dacre dedicated Daisy Bell ("A Bicycle Built for Two") at the time of their elope ment. Al Crossley is a stocky Bostonian chiefly famed as a sprinter. Walthour & Crossley finished second in last December's Manhattan six-day race, warmed up for last week's triumph by winning a race in Copenhagen last month. Hailed now as the most dangerous rivals to the German team of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian, who recently passed a cycle of nine six-day races without losing one, Walthour & Crossley this week sail for a bicycle tour...
Born in Hungary 52 years ago, Erne Hunt Diederich was the son of a rich and swank Hungarian horse breeder. His mother was the daughter of famed Bostonian Artist William Morris Hunt. A distant cousin of Diederich is onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes. Convinced at that time that he was the last of the Hunts, Erno Diederich began to be called Hunt Diederich when he was 10 years...