Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helmet of ice 100 to 150 ft. thick caps British Columbia's Mt. Robson, tallest (12,292 ft.) of the Canadian Rockies. From the ice cap's edge huge fragments occasionally break off and start avalanches. A Bostonian named Henry S. Hall and his Swiss guide had the pluck to defy this danger, the luck to escape it, were last week picking their way down from Mt. Robson's glittering summit...
...history will tell any loyal American, Bostonian, Middle-Westerner, or Hawaiian, that the people of Hawaii are being imposed upon when their homeland is called a "possession." It is legally and historically "an integral part of the United States." As a sovereign and independent nation, the Republic of Hawaii joined itself to the United States in 1898. As a Honolulu columnist once said, Hawaii owns the United States just as much as the United States owns Hawaii. Even the island school children feel disgusted when some American minor statesman starts showing himself sufficiently uninformed to consider Hawaii a "possession...
...stake had shriveled to some $2,000,000. Earnings for the first six months of that year were a miserly 51? a share. So the towering, hawk-nosed banana man marched into a United Fruit board meeting with a fist full of proxies and stock certificates and shocked eminent Bostonian directors with a curt demand for power. He got it. They made him "Managing Director in Charge of Operations." From Boston to Bogota the United Fruit organization began to learn what it was to be efficient. In the last half of that year United Fruit's income was nearly...
...principal difference between the Californian and Bostonian debutantes, according to Charles Buddy Rogers, who gave a hurried interview to the CRIMSON reporter last night, is that the girls in California believe in living full outdoor lives, with their riding, tennis, swimming, and other activities. "They aren't so much interested in the Junior League, and all that," said Mr. Rogers...
...Bostonian Harvard man, I hall with delight the idea of having a rally Friday night before the Yale game. This rally will fulfill a long-felt need at Harvard. My only fear is that it will be held in such spiritless fashion (because of the celebrated Harvard indifference) as to be completely valueless...